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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
News / Biz Last day to comment on Duke Energy's latest nuclear plant
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM
As The Charlotte Business Journal points out, while Duke Energy's new nuclear plant won't be built in Charlotte — the one we ratepayers will be paying for, the one that will be built in Gaffney, S.C., which is only 50 miles west on I-85 — the plant will impact Charlotte in many ways. (Keep in mind, Duke Energy already owns two nuclear plants near Charlotte.)
The most obvious is that the owner of the plant, Duke, is headquartered here. Three other area companies — The Shaw Group, Westinghouse and Mitsubishi — are also working on the nuclear reactor (the item that's up for comment).
Then, of course, there are the health, safety and environmental concerns. From The Charlotte Business Journal:
"The public was given 75 days to comment on a decade's worth of designs," said John Runkle, an environmental attorney for the AP1000 Oversight Group, which believes the safety stakes are too high to rush into building plants.
Here's what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — under fire for lax oversights and for being too close to the industry it's regulating — posted with the federal register, which includes contact information:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission)proposes to amend its regulations to certify an amendment to the AP1000
standard plant design. The purpose of the amendment is to replace the
combined license (COL) information items and design acceptance criteria
(DAC) with specific design information, address the effects of the
impact of a large commercial aircraft, incorporate design improvements,
and increase standardization of the design. Upon NRC rulemaking
approval of its amendment to the AP1000 design, an
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applicant seeking an NRC license to construct and operate a nuclear
power reactor using the AP1000 design need not demonstrate in its
application the safety of the certified design. The applicant for this
amendment to the AP1000 certified design is Westinghouse Electric
Company, LLC (Westinghouse). The public is invited to submit comments
on this proposed design certification rule (DCR), the revised generic
design control document (DCD) that would be incorporated by reference
into the DCR, and the environmental assessment (EA) for this amendment
to the AP1000 design.
DATES: Submit comments on the DCR, the revised DCD and/or the EA for
this amendment by May 10, 2011. Submit comments specific to the
information collections aspects of this rule by March 28, 2011.
Comments received after the above dates will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration of comments received
after these dates cannot be given.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0131 in the subject line
of your comments. For instructions on submitting comments and accessing
documents related to this action, see Section I, ``Submitting Comments
and Accessing Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document. You may submit comments by any one of the following
methods.
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and
search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2010-0131. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone: 301-492-
3668; e-mail: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff.
E-mail comments to: Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you do not
receive a reply e-mail confirming that we have received your comments,
contact us directly at 301-415-1677.
Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. during Federal workdays
(telephone: 301-415-1677).
Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at
301-415-1101.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Serita Sanders, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-2956; e-mail: serita.sanders@nrc.gov.
Did you catch this part: Upon NRC rule-making approval of its amendment to the AP1000 design, an applicant seeking an NRC license to construct and operate a nuclear power reactor using the AP1000 design need not demonstrate in its application the safety of the certified design.
WTF?
Further reading: Decade of testing on reactor design not enough, some say -- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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