Sep 29, 2024: The case against restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit-1

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Bailout Bonanza: Comments on the Restart of Three Mile Island, (9/3/24)

Bailout Bonanza. 
Eric Epstein
September 3, 2024 
 
It wasn’t long ago that Pennsylvania politicians 
approved deregulation and embraced the market place.
 
It wasn’t long ago that TMI couldn’t compete in the 
market place, and lost $300 million over eight years.
 
It wasn’t long ago that nuclear utilities received a $9 billion bailout to help nuclear power transition to a competitive market.
The market has spoken, but politicians aren’t listening.
Constellation will have the support of President Biden,
Governor Shapiro, labor, and the legislature for another bailout.
 
The proposed restart of the Three Mile Island Unit-1 will require at least a $1.8 billion bailout, and a long-term power purchase agreement. (Palisades began operating in 1971; 805 mw.)
This would mark the fourth bailout for Three Mile Island.
 
Nuclear bailouts are expensive and have two constant threads:  Nuclear power can’t compete in the market place, and rate payers get the bill and higher electric prices. 
 
 
Bailout, #1:  TMI-2 experienced a core melt accident
after 90 days of operation. Rate payers and tax payers 
came to the rescue. 
 
TMI-2 received $987 million to defuel the melted core 
under a plan coordinated by former Governor Dick Thornburgh. 
We protected TMI from bankruptcy. Most of the fuel was removed, but Unit-2 remains a high-level, radioactive waste site.
 
How did TMI show their gratitude? 
 
TMI-2 pays no taxes, reduced their insurance coverage, and eliminated their emergency plan.
 
Alternative: The Solana Generating Station in Arizona completed in 2013 can produce up to 280 megawatts and supply 55,000 homes. 
The Department of Energy sponsored a $967 million loan guarantee.
 
Bailout #2: In 1995 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed
a lower court’s decision, and allowed GPU to charge rate payers
for the cleanup of the TMI-2 accident. Yes, we got the cleanup bill, for a plant that operated for 90 days. The plant remains a high-level radioactive waste site.
 
In case you had forgotten, the nuclear industry failed to establish decommissioning funds for an accident they promised could not happen. The current cost to decommission TMI-2 – which will be totally underwritten by rate payers – was determined by the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to be $1.27 billion in 2018.
TMI-2 now plans to “pause” the clean-up at TMI-2 due to 
a lack of funds. 
 
 
 
The cost to defuel TMI-2 – and potentially clean up the site – has cost rate payers and tax payers $2.357 billion or $28,188.88 million for each day the reactor operated.
 
Alternative: In December 2010, the Department of Energy issued a $1.3 billion partial loan guarantee under the Financial Institution Partnership Program to finance Shepherds Flat, an 845-mw wind power generation project located in eastern Oregon. It reached full commercial operations in November 2012.
 
Bailout, #3: In 1996 the Pennsylvania Legislature passed the Electricity Customer Choice and Competition Act. The law restructured the electric industry, separating the generation of electricity from its distribution and transmission 
 
Utilities claimed they were saddled with “stranded costs” from nuclear power plants due to their cost overruns. Limerick-1went
from an estimated cost of $1.7 billion in 1984 to $7.246 billion. Limerick-2 cost 7.5 times more that the initial estimate of $382 million. The final cost was $2.9 billion.
 
Nuclear utilities received $9 billion in the deregulation bailout that took consumers a decade to pay off. Keep in mind, these payments were meant to help nuclear power generators transition to competitive markets. 
 
The construction of TMI-1 and TMI-2 were underwritten by rate payers at a cost of $1.1 billion. The first two bailouts for TMI-2 cost rate payers $2.257 billion.
 
When you factor the cost rate payers paid to bail out TMI-2, and build both units, the bill is $3.357 billion.
 
What did we get for their investment? Seven hundred tons of nuclear garbage at TMI-1, and a high-level radioactive waste 
at TMI-2.
 
Neither plant has been decommissioned.
 
Alternative: Hydro-Québec has announced its plans to create a $9-billion wind farm in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region in partnership with three Native American tribes. The farm will generate 3,000 mw.   
The $600 million Innu wind project will use province's hydro dams as backup power for when wind doesn't blow.
 
Tax payers keep bailing out Three Mile Island which means that rate payers keep losing out. Restarting Three Mile Island comes with a price tag, a rate increase, and 600 tons of additional spent fuel.
 
Pay it forward doesn’t mean piling up more radioactive garbage for
our grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great, great, grandchildren.
 
In the real world, when you create a catastrophe, you aren’t
bailed out, and given a tax-free nuclear mulligan. 
 
First things first. 
 
Is it too much to ask to clean up the mess you made 45 years ago?
 
Note: This information is not contained on the Department of Environmental Resources or Nuclear Caucus web sites which are funded tax payer dollars.
 
By admin at Tue, 09/03/2024 - 14:10

Wayne County: You Are the Next Radioactive Garbage Dump

Hello community!
 
We hope you all are staying safe and healthy as temperatures start coming down and the kids are back in school. This month's update has some exciting news, important events, and more excellent watchdogging from our newsletter author, Jessie Collins.
Exciting Community Event! - Save the Date
 
First off, we have some very exciting news! Please SAVE THE DATE for Saturday, October 12th from 5-8pm! As you know, this year marks CRAFT’s first Community Fellowship and we’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with six brilliant, generous, and hardworking individuals in this fellowship. On October 12th, we will hold an event celebrating the culmination of our work together as an offering to the community, so please mark it in your calendars and come out to party with us! 
Wayne County Nuclear Waste Hearing
 
One of the biggest problems with the nuclear industry is that no one knows what to do with the radioactive waste it creates. It is disastrously hazardous to the workers who handle it and the people who live where it is dumped, and it’s not getting any less dangerous any time soon. Michigan is getting a wake-up call to this reality as nuclear waste that was generated during World War 2 is being transported from New York to Wayne County.
 
A meeting about this decision will be held this Wednesday, September 4th, at 6:00pm at Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD). Several agencies will be represented with the attendance of many state and local officials. Please come out and voice your opposition to this decision!
 
Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD)
Ted Scott Campus, Room B121, 9555 Haggerty Rd., Belleville
 
The following people/entities are expected to attend:
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Wayne County Executive Warren Evans
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Republic Services, Inc.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Other state and local officials
And now, for updates from the newsletter!
 
1. Heard this one before? DTE is requesting another rate hike. Every year for the past TEN years, DTE Energy has increased its rates for DTE Electric and DTE Gas. This year, they want an increase of $456.4 million for Electric and $266 million for Gas. Meanwhile, DTE is paying for private jets to fly their executives around the country. In 2022, they spent almost a quarter of a million dollars for only 17 trips. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has been taking DTE to task for their outrageous requests when Michigan remains the second-worst state in the country for power outages.
 
2. Folks in every state – and maybe every country – are under a mistaken belief that Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are just waiting to solve their energy needs. Unfortunately, SMRs are not a reality yet, just unsuccessfully being developed. That’s right: they don’t exist. And yet, money and resources are being funneled into their development when carbon-free and lower-cost renewable technologies are available today. Oh, but how else will we increase our stockpile of 3,700 nuclear warheads in the US?
 
3. The Havasupai Tribe has issued an open letter calling out Energy Fuels Resources Inc. (EFRI) for its violations of indigenous territories with uranium mining and transportation of ore through Arizona. The dangerous handling of uranium ore endangers tribal members of the Havasupai and Navajo as well as Arizona citizens. EFRI has demonstrated a complete lack of regard for the health and safety of the land and all who live and depend on it in their pursuit of the almighty dollar. Read the full statement in this month’s insert.
 
Thanks for supporting us and a safer world powered by renewables.
We’re in this together!
 
Peace and Safety,
 
The CRAFT Team
Citizen's Resistance At Fermi Two (CRAFT) is an Indigenous-led, grassroots, organization, committed to an accessible, fair, and just energy future for all! CRAFT originally formed after the Christmas Day 1993 incident at the Fermi2 nuclear reactor that dumped 1.5 million gallons of untreated toxic, radioactive water into Lake Erie. We will continue to push for the closing of Fermi2, and for a safer world powered by renewables.
By admin at Mon, 09/02/2024 - 02:56

TMI Unit 2 Historic and Cultural License Amendment 68

Docketed this morning - zip of three
Document Title:
Three Mile Island, Unit 2 Historic and Cultural License Amendment 68
Document Type:
 
Document Date:
 
By admin at Sat, 08/31/2024 - 13:34

[decomm_wkg] 9/3/24 Higher Burnup; 9/5/24 NEI Security Plan; 9/11/24 Alternative Security

NEI Security Plan partially closed meeting 9/5/2024
 
 
Document Title:
20240905 NRC Staff Review of Proposed Changes in NEI 03-12, Revision 8, Security Plan Template No Notes Meeting Slides
Document Type:
Meeting Briefing Package/Handouts
Slides and Viewgraphs
Document Date:
09/05/2024
09/05/24
9:00AM -
11:00AM ET
Meeting info
The purpose of this meeting is for the NRC staff to provide initial feedback to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) regarding proposed changes in Revision 8 to NEI 03-12, Security Plan Template. [more...]

Participation: Partially Closed

 Teleconference
Teleconference
Jesse Rollins
(817) 200-1431

Justin Vazquez
(301) 415-0530
 
Security Check - Phone it in - Push for Remote Security - 9/11/2024
 
Document Title:
09/11/2024 Alternative Physical Security Requirements for Advanced Reactors Rulemaking: Public Comment Period
Document Type:
Meeting Notice
Meeting Agenda
Document Date:
08/27/2024
09/11/24
1:00PM -
4:00PM ET
Meeting info
The purpose of this meeting is to present the published proposed rule alternative physical security requirements for advanced reactors (non-light water reactors and small modular reactors). This meeting will also allow an opportunity for stakeholders to ask clarification questions to help understand the proposed rule and to develop any public comments. [more...]

Participation: Information with Q&A

 Teleconference
Webinar
Dennis Andrukat
(301) 415-3561
N2
MJK
By admin at Sat, 08/31/2024 - 13:33

New York cannot afford nuclear power and must not slow down its Climate Act

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-cannot-afford-nuclear-power-095039411.html/

Utility Dive

New York cannot afford nuclear power and must not slow down its Climate Act


Utility Dive· FernandoAH via Getty Images

Raya Salter
4 min read

This story was originally published on Utility Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Utility Dive newsletter.

Raya Salter is the founder of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center and a member of the New York State Climate Action Council and the New York Public Service Commission Energy Policy Planning Advisory Council.

Last month, a troubling report penned by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority acknowledged that New York is not on track to meet the ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets in our 2019 Climate Act. If this were not bad enough, influential decision-makers and industry players have been calling for New York to weaken it. They want to expand allowable generation sources beyond renewables, and entertain “low-carbon and carbon-free alternatives,” including nuclear power. On September 4-5, the governor’s administration is hosting a Future Energy and Economy Summit at which two of the five panels featured will be speaking about the future of nuclear energy in New York. 

We need to be clear: nuclear power is neither a climate solution nor a clean energy solution. It is an expensive, toxic, and dangerous distraction that will only impede New York's progress toward its climate goals. New York needs look no further than the Vogtle reactors in Georgia or the canceled NuScale reactors in Utah. The Vogtle project took 16 years to complete its first reactor and cost more than twice its initial estimate. Costs for the NuScale project doubled before construction even began; eight years after it was first proposed, the project had neither broken ground nor received a single permit. 

Of course, New York has its own nuclear cautionary tale: the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island. Promised as a pathway to energy independence in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Shoreham became a financial disaster. The project's cost soared from an initial $75 million estimate to over $6 billion. Due to local opposition, regulatory challenges and safety concerns, the plant was decommissioned before it could provide any commercial power. Long Island ratepayers are still paying Shoreham’s debt. Shoreham’s story is a stark reminder that nuclear projects often come with insurmountable economic and social costs.

Our Climate Act was hard won and a highly supported piece of legislation that led the nation on climate and environmental justice. Our agencies and regulators must follow, and not erode, its protections for frontline communities. Nuclear does the opposite. New York’s existing reactors, their radioactive waste and waste spills, continue to pose a threat to communities who live where nuclear operations, dumping and transport occur. There is no permanent solution to waste that will remain radioactive for thousands of years. Peer-reviewed studies examining these impacts on surrounding communities have identified a number of grave environmental harms and public health risks. Many of these risks disproportionately impact Indigenous communities and other communities of color in the U.S. and worldwide. 

Proponents of “advanced” nuclear technologies argue that they offer something new. However, these technologies, including small modular reactors, are based on old concepts that previously failed due to safety, waste management and economic challenges. Claims that these reactors will provide cheaper, safer and faster nuclear energy remain unproven, echoing the same empty promises that led to past failures. 

Including nuclear power in New York’s transmission policy planning would also be misguided. Nuclear energy does not align with the goals of a flexible, renewable-driven grid. Relying on nuclear would distract from building infrastructure to support truly renewable sources like wind and solar, which are becoming increasingly cost-effective and reliable. Nuclear power would lock us into a centralized, high-risk generation model that doesn't fit the decentralized nature of modern clean energy systems.

There is a lot of promise for our climate goals despite the gloomy projection. Our state is leading the way in piloting new, clean, efficient and at-scale heating and cooling technologies like utility thermal energy networks. More New Yorkers than ever are interested in and learning about green technologies and the jobs that come with them. We don’t need scenario planning that promises nuclear power on a mythical timeline towards a slower, less ambitious goal. What we need is for New York to meet its climate challenges with urgency and, acting in the public interest, reject false solutions like nuclear power. 

By admin at Sat, 08/31/2024 - 13:30

Petition and Hearing Request to Block Palisades Restart

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR

  For immediate release 

  Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org
  Michael Keegan, convenor, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, mkeeganj@comcast.net

 

Environmental Coalition Legally Challenges Holtec Decommissioning International License Transfer to Palisades Energy, LLC

Intervention Petition and Hearing Request Seeks to Block Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor Restart

Covert, MI and Washington, D.C., August 28, 2024--

An environmental coalition, comprised of Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future, has kept up its years-long drumbeat of resistance to Holtec International’s “zombie” reactor restart scheme at the Palisades nuclear power plant. The coalition has filed an intervention petition and request for hearing on behalf of its organizations’ local members, by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) short 20-day deadline on August 27, 2024, following the related August 7, 2024 Federal Register Notice published by the agency. Most of the coalition’s legal standing declarants live within 0.75 to 1.2 miles of the atomic reactor. Palisades is located in Covert Township, Van Buren County, Michigan on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

The coalition likewise fully intends to file an intervention petition and hearing request against a so-called “Exemption” sought by Holtec, as well as several License Amendment Requests (LARs), all supposedly needed to convert Palisades’ possession-only license for decommissioning purposes, into an unprecedented, restored operating license. This deadline is October 7, 2024, 60 days after the related Federal Register Notice of August 7, 2024.

The coalition’s legal counsel, Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids, IA, and Terry Lodge of Toledo, OH, have argued that the bait and switch trick, or con job, played by Holtec in the first place, invalidates the Entergy-to-Holtec license transfer of 2022, and prohibits the current attempt to shift the license from one Holtec holding company to another. Beginning in 2020, Holtec indicated it was seeking to take over at Palisades for decommissioning purposes only.

In February 2021, the same environmental coalition intervened against Holtec’s initial takeover, warning the controversial, scandal-ridden company could not be trusted. In addition, at that same time, Environmental Law and Policy Center, as well as the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Michigan, Dana Nessel, filed parallel interventions, arguing Palisades’ Decommissioning Trust Fund (DTF) was inadequate to carry out Holtec’s Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report plan. After meeting NRC’s short 20-day deadline, the environmental groups were kept waiting by the agency, without a word, for nearly a year and a half, only to be summarily rejected from the proceeding in July 2022. AG Nessel’s office continued to argue the DTF was $200 million short, but the proceedings were held mostly behind closed doors, supposedly to protect trade secrecy, athough the DTF has been publicly funded, by ratepayers.

But after Entergy — Palisades’ previous owner — closed Palisades for good on May 20, 2022, and then certified permanent shutdown with the NRC on June 13, 2022, Holtec wasted no time to instead pursue reactor restart. Holtec took possession of Palisades on June 28, 2022, and by July 5, 2022, had already applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for many billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to restart Palisades. Holtec, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, would not publicly announce the major reversal until more than two months later, on September 9, 2022. Gov. Whitmer had first floated the trial balloon for Palisades’ restart on April 20, 2022, a month before Entergy closed the reactor for good. For its part, Holtec’s CEO, Krishna Singh, had first floated the idea of building so-called “Small Modular Reactors” on the Palisades site just days earlier, in mid-April, 2022 as well.

Holtec has never operated an atomic reactor, nor has it constructed one. Holtec has proposed restarting the 57-year old (ground was broken in 1967) Palisades reactor, that operated for 51 years (from 1971 to 2022) by June 2025, and then operating the “zombie” reactor for another quarter-century, till 2051. Holtec has proposed breaking ground, also at Palisades, on two SMR-300s (300 Megawatts-electric each) by 2026, firing them up by 2030, and then operating them for many decades into the future, even though the Holtec SMR-300 design has not even been certified yet by NRC.

The coalition’s current legal intervention concludes, in part:

What emerges from Holtec’s pattern of misleads and misrepresentations respecting its acquisition of Palisades is that Holtec benefited economically while the public and the regulator are expected to absorb the economic and oversight costs of the Palisades restart to a large extent. Petitioners therefore request that the NRC revoke the original [Entergy to Holtec] December 2021 license transfer in its entirety. Moreover, Holtec owns a possession-only license for Palisades and does not have a renewed facility operating license to transfer to Palisades Energy. For that additional reason the license transfer must be denied.

Kevin Kamps from Kalamazoo, Michigan, 40 miles downwind of Palisades, who serves as radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear, stated:

“Palisades ‘zombie’ reactor restart is unprecedented, as reflected by NRC’s convoluted regulatory restart pathway that the agency and Holtec have colluded on for the past year and a half. The restart is unneeded, since renewables, storage, and efficiency can readily replace Palisades’ 800 Megawatts of electricity, as testified to by one of our coalition’s world-renowned expert witnesses, Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University. The restart is insanely expensive, with Holtec requesting more than $8 billion in taxpayer and ratepayer bailouts. And it is extremely high-risk, due to long known, widespread, severe age-related degradation, as well as the lack of needed active safety maintenance since shutdown nearly two and a half years ago, and counting.”

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Beyond Nuclear is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization. Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abolish both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. The Beyond Nuclear team works with diverse partners and allies to provide the public, government officials, and the media with the critical information necessary to move humanity toward a world beyond nuclear. Beyond Nuclear: 7304 Carroll Avenue, #182, Takoma Park, MD 20912. Info@beyondnuclear.org. www.beyondnuclear.org.

 

Docketed to ADAMS 8:34

 

ML24240A210

https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML24240A210 

Document Title:

Petition to Intervene and Request for Adjudicatory Hearing

Document Type:

Legal-Petition To Intervene/Request for Hearing

Document Date:

08/27/2024

 

https://qz.com/nuclear-power-ai-michigan-palisades-1851632787

 

AI uses so much energy it's bringing a nuclear power plant back from the dead

qz.com

 

https://www.tradingview.com/news/benzinga:9fa4e36af094b:0-power-hungry-ai-revives-interest-in-nuclear-energy-michigan-to-reopen-closed-plant-for-first-time-in-history/

 

Power-Hungry AI Revives Interest In Nuclear Energy: Michigan To Reopen Closed Plant For First Time In History
A decommissioned nuclear power plant in Michigan is being brought back to life.Pushed by a growing need for carbon-free energy, the Palisades nuclear power plant will be the first in the U.S. to be recommissioned after shutting down.The Palisades plant was built in the late 1960s and began running…
www.tradingview.com
By admin at Thu, 08/29/2024 - 13:45

Final copy: Press Conference Opposing the Restart of Three Mile Island: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 11 A.M. at the Capitol

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS 
  
TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE.
  
  
  
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 
  
AT 11 A.M. AT THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA
  
  
Representatives from national, regional, and local anti-nuclear groups will present a press conference on Tuesday, 
September 3, 2024 at 11 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda to announce continued opposition to the planned reopening 
of Three Mile Island Unit One which has been proceeding quietly behind the scenes by its owner Constellation Energy. 
  
  
Representatives from the national Nuclear Information Resources Service will be presenting along with representatives
from the, Three Miles Island Alert, No Nukes Pennsylvania and the Middletown Concerned Mothers and Women,
who are the focus of the award winning film “Radioactivity: The Women of Three Mile Island.
  
  
Three Mile Island has two units. Three Mile Island Unit Two, brought on line in late 1978, had the worst nuclear accident
 in American history forty-five years ago in 1979 and the final cleanup of the metal core is stalled due inadequate funding.
  
  
Three Mile Island Unit One was brought on line in 1974. It was off-line for six years from 1979 until 1985. Pennsylvania
citizens fought to keep Unit One shut due to the insanity of running a nuclear power plant next to a completely damaged 
nuclear plant. However, In 1985 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pennsylvania politicians, and Pennsylvania state 
regulators did not listen to Central Pennsylvania citizens even though the surrounding counties voted overwhelmingly
to keep it shut down in a non-binding referendum on May 18, 1982. It was finally closed in 2019 because it could not
sell its power profitably. 
 
  
Now after five years of being closed, the enablers, Constellation Energy, Pennsylvania politicians and the nuclear industry,
 want to reopen Unit One in order to serve the needs of the “artificial intelligence” power demand not the citizens. Another
prime example of technological tyranny. 
  
  
Everything has been progressing in the dark, but after many months, events are coming into the scrutiny of the light of day. 
Constellation Energy has been reviewing the hardware at Unit One and assessing the viability of a plan to reopen it. The 
Pennsylvania governor and legislators are trying to provide money to make it happen. Federal funding is abundantly 
available as the effort progresses.   
  
  
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a biased, captured regulator, along with the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the 
Pennsylvania legislature will do everything in their power to make the reopening possible, including a bailout of over 
$1 billion dollars.
 
By admin at Thu, 08/29/2024 - 13:41

PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2024
 
 
CONTACT: ERIC EPSTEIN
THREE MILE ISLAND ALERT
717-979-8767
 
 
CONTACT: GENE STILP
NO NUKES PENNSYLVANIA
717-829-5600
 
 
 
 
 
PRESS CONFERENCE BY NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CITIZENS
 
TO OPPOSE THE REOPENING OF THREE MILE ISLAND UNIT ONE.
 
 
 
TUEADAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
 
AT 11 A.M. AT THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA
 
 
 
Representatives from national, regional, and local anti-nuclear groups will present a press conference on Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 11 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda to announce continued opposition to the planned reopening of Three Mile Island Unit One which has been proceeding quietly behind the scenes by its owner Constellation Energy.
 
 
Representatives from the national Nuclear Information Resources Service will be presenting along with representatives from the, Three Miles Island Alert, No Nukes Pennsylvania and the Middletown Concerned Mothers and Women, who are the focus of the award winning film “Radioactivity: the Women of Three Mile Island.”
 
 
Three Mile Island has two units. Three Mile Island Unit Two, brought on line in late 1978, had the worst nuclear accident in American history forty-five years ago in 1979 and the final cleanup of the metal core is stalled."
 
 
Three Mile Island Unit One was brought on line in 1974. It was off-line for six years from 1979 until 1985. Pennsylvania citizens fought to keep Unit One shut due to the insanity of running a nuclear power plant next to a completely damaged nuclear plant. However, In 1985 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pennsylvania politicians, and Pennsylvania state regulators did not listen to Central Pennsylvania citizens even though the surrounding counties voted overwhelmingly to keep it shut down in a non-binding referendum on May 18, 1982. It was finally closed in 2019 because it could not sell its power profitably.
 
 
Now after five years of being closed, the enablers, Constellation Energy, Pennsylvania politicians and the whole nuclear industry, want to reopen Unit One in order to serve the needs of the “artificial intelligence” power demand not the citizens. Another prime example of technological tyranny.
 
 
Everything has been progressing in the dark, but after many months, events are coming into the scrutiny of the light of day. Constellation Energy has been reviewing the hardware at Unit One and assessing the viability of a plan to reopen it. The Pennsylvania governor and legislators are trying to provide money to make it happen. Federal funding is abundantly available as the effort progresses.
 
 
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a biased, captured regulator, along with the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Pennsylvania legislature will do everything in their power to make the reopening possible, including a bailout of over one billion dollars.
 
By admin at Thu, 08/29/2024 - 13:37

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3 - Fire Protection Team Inspection Report 05000277/2024010 and 05000278/2024010

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3 - Fire Protection Team Inspection Report 05000277/2024010 and 05000278/2024010
 
ADAMS Accession No. ML24236A054
 
By admin at Thu, 08/29/2024 - 13:35

NRC Renews North Anna Operating Licenses for a Second Time

Nuclear Regulatory Commission - News Release
No: 24-067 August 28, 2024
CONTACT: Scott Burnell, 301-415-8200

NRC Renews North Anna Operating Licenses for a Second Time

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licenses of North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2 for an additional 20 years.
 
The North Anna units are pressurized-water reactors located in Louisa County, Virginia, about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia. Unit 1’s operating license will now expire April 1, 2058, and Unit 2’s will expire on August 21, 2060.
 
The NRC’s review of the application from Virginia Electric and Power Co., a subsidiary of Dominion Energy, proceeded on two tracks. A safety evaluation report was issued in January 2022, and a final environmental impact statement was issued in July 2024. These documents, as well as other information regarding the North Anna subsequent license renewal application, are available on the NRCwebsite.
 
The NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board terminated the adjudicatory proceeding regarding the application in July 2024, concluding that no contested matters remained before it for resolution. The Board’s decision has been appealed to the Commission. NRC regulations allow the licenses to be issued while an appeal is pending. The Commission retains the ability to act on the appeal and, as needed, direct additional staff action on the licenses.
 
With the renewal of the North Anna licenses, eight commercial nuclear power reactors have received subsequent renewed licenses (authorizing operations from 60 to 80 years). Seven applications for subsequent license renewal are currently under review.
 
By admin at Thu, 08/29/2024 - 13:33

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