ML071710487
| ML071710487 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 06/13/2007 |
| From: | Hassman H, Regar A, Wanshel J - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Klein D NRC/Chairman |
| References | |
| G20070397, LTR-07-0392 | |
| Download: ML071710487 (4) | |
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845-424-4150 June 13, 2007 04:15 AM Howard Hassman "1": " ~
2035 E. 16 St., 4 Brooklyn, NY 11229 DEDMRS DEDR Chairman Dale Klein DEDIA One White Flint North 4N) 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738 5K'v(3 2
Subject:
Include Emergency Planning in Relicensing
Dear Chairman Dale Klein,
I live in proximity to the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Living near this aging nuclear facility, I am deeply concerned about the potential for increased safety problems and environmental pollution, should the NRC relicense it for another 20 years. I am also deeply concerned about the inability to evacuate the region, in the event of an emergency at Indian Point.
In 2003 a New York State-commissioned report conducted by James Lee Witt Associates concluded that the emergency evacuation plans for Indian Point are "are not adequate to overcome their combined weight and protect the people from an unacceptable dose of radiation in the event of a release from Indian Point." The counties surrounding Indian Point and New York State have refused to submit their Annual Certification Letters since the Report was released, yet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Department of Homeland Security have each year certified the plans without ever providing the public or elected officials a detailed response to the large number of problems with the plans as detailed by James Lee Witt.
I am writing to formally request that the NRC, in the relicensing process for Indian Point, provide the public and elected officials with a comprehensive, detailed response to all of Witt's findings as called for in federal legislation proposed in the U.S. House (649)sponsored by Representatives Hall, Hinchey, Lowey, Engel, and Shays, and U.S. Senate (994) sponsored by Senators Clin.ton and Schumer. This legislation is also supported by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Sincerely, Howard Hassmnan 2035 E. 16 St.
Brooklyn, NY 11229co "7.
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845-424-4150 June 13, 2007 12:44PM jeff wanshel
- 1 spanish cove rd,
- larchmont, NY 10538 Chairman Dale Klein One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738
Subject:
Include Emergency Planning in Relicensing
Dear Chairman Dale Klein,
The current emergency evacuation plant, as every Westchester citizen except those in the employ of Entergy knows, is laughably, insultingly unworkable and dangerous. In the event of an emergency at Indian Point requiring evacuation, not only would the roads hopelessly clog, I believe citizens would injure anyone trying to stop them from hooking up with and evacuating their children.
That the plan is a convenient fiction designed to permit continued operation of the plant is obvious to anyone who has looked at it or knows that the wind shifts, if not, perhaps, to willfully oblivious NRC Omnissioners who hope to qualify for gainful employment within the famously revolving-door industry.
We sit next to perhaps the biggest storage depot of lethal toxins in history - how many times the radioactive inventory of Chernobyl?
Thanks to the explosed situation of the plant any group of suicidally inclined individuals or grudgee with a working knowledge of explosives can cause the tri-state area to "evacuate" -
permanently if the spent-fuel ignotes - causing an economic melt-down.
The NRC itself, in the office of a retired Commissioner, has stated that the plant today would never be sited where it currently sits.
How then could it possibly be relicensed?
Kindly try just this once to rise above self-interest.
You just mnay save your own life by saving mnine.
What follows is the text of a Riverkeeper message with which I agree.
I live in proximity to the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Living near this aging nuclear facility, I am deeply concerned about the potential for increased safety problems and
environmental pollution, should the NRC relicense it for another 20 years. I am also deeply concerned about the inability to evacuate the region, in the event of an emergency at Indian Point.
In 2003 a New York State-commissioned report conducted by James Lee Witt Associates concluded that the emergency evacuation plans for Indian Point are "are not adequate to overcome their combined weight and protect the people from an unacceptable dose of radiation in the event of a release from Indian Point." The counties surrounding Indian Point and New York State have refused to submit their Annual Certification Letters since the Report was released, yet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Department of Homeland Security have each year certified the plans without ever providing the public or elected officials a detailed response to the large number of problems with the plans as detailed by James Lee Witt.
I am writing to formally request that the NRC, in the relicensing process for Indian Point, provide the public and elected officials with a comprehensive, detailed response to all of Witt's findings as -called for in federal legislation proposed in the U.S. House (649)sponsored by Representatives Hall, Hinchey, Lowey, Engel, and Shays, and U.S. Senate (994) sponsored by Senators Clinton and Schumer. This legislation is also supported by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Sincerely, jeff wanshel 1 spanish cove rd larchmnont, NY 10538
June 15, 2007 11:36 AM 845-424-4150 Chairman Dale Klein One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738
Subject:
Include Emergency Planning in Relicensing
Dear.Chairman Dale Klein,
I live in proximity to the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
Living near this aging nuclear facility, I am deeply concerned about the potential for increased safety problems and environmental pollution, should the NRC relicense it for another 20 years.
I am also deeply concerned about the inability to evacuate the region, in the event of an emergency at Indian Point.
In 2003 a New York State-commissioned report conducted by James Lee Witt Associates concluded that the emergency evacuation plans for Indian Point are "are not adequate to overcome their combined weight and protect the people from an unacceptable dose of radiation in the event of a release from Indian Point."
The counties surrounding Indian Point and New York State have refused to submit their Annual Certification Letters since the Report was released, yet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Department of Homeland Security have each year certified the plans without ever providing the public or elected officials a detailed response to the large number of problems with the plans as detailed by James Lee Witt.
I am writing to formally request that the NRC, in the relicensing process for Indian Point, provide the public and elected officials with a comprehensive, detailed response to all of Witt's findings as called for in federal legislation proposed in the U.S. House (649)sponsored by Representatives Hall,
- Hinchey, Lowey,
- Engel, and Shays, and U.S. Senate (994) sponsored by Senators Clinton and Schumer.
This legislation is also supported by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Sincerely, Allen Regar