PSR WI defends its intervention contentions, as it opposes an 80-year operating license at the Point Beach nuclear power plant

Point Beach Units 1 and 2, located on WI's Lake Michigan shoreline.As filed by Toledo, OH-based attorney Terry Lodge, who serves as legal counsel for Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin:

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S REPLY IN SUPPORTOF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE IN POINT BEACH NUCLEARPLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL PROCEEDING, AND REQUESTING AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING

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PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S MOTIONTO AMEND CONTENTION 2 (INADEQUATELY TESTED REACTOR COOLANT PRESSURE BOUNDARY)

The filings were submitted on April 26, 2021 -- the 35th annual commemoration of the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. They contain the expert witness testimony of Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer, Fairewinds Energy Associates.

See the initial PSR WI petition to intervene, dated March 23, 2021, linked here.

Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues, April 26-30

NATIVE NUCLEAR FORUM

5-Day Speaker Series, April 26 to 30

The Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues focuses on the impacts that nuclear has on Native American communities across the country, including uranium mining and milling, nuclear weapons production and testing, atomic reactor operation, radioactive waste transport and dumping, etc. Join them from 5 to 7pm PT each day (8 to 10pm ET; 7 to 9pm CT; 6 to 8pm MT). Speakers include Winona LaDuke, Steve Newcomb, Carletta Tilousi, Dr. Tommy Rock, Manny Pino, Myron Dewey, Joe Kennedy, and Ian Zabarte. Featured artists and performers include Jack Malotte, Sarah Caligiuri, and Bryan Hudson. This virtual event is brought to you by Native Community Action Council in partnership with Native Americans for Restorative Stewardship. Pre-registration is required for each day's session.

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MATERIALS FROM 4/7/21 CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON LAKE MICHIGAN NUCLEAR ISSUES

Letter from Lake Michigan environmental coalition to Members of Congress and their staff, re: nuclear power and radioactive waste risks in the Lake Michigan region:

MATERIALS FROM CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON LAKE MICHIGAN NUCLEAR ISSUES

April 22, 2021

Greetings All –

We hope this note finds you well.

Enclosed are the materials from the April 7^th, 2021 Congressional Briefing on Lake Michigan Nuclear Issues.  We thank those of you who were able to attend that day; and provide these as a courtesy to those of you who could not.

We provide the following (linked below):

1.)   Link to the ZOOM session (1 hour, 6 minutes):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-ynPzoibQ

2.)   Zoom session Chat Box text

3.)   Agenda – with contact information of the presenters

4.)   Palisades Nuclear Power Plant documents (courtesy of Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear and Don't Waste MI: Power Point Presentation; References/Citations)

5.)   Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant documents (courtesy of Hannah Mortensen of PSR Wisconsin, Madison; see also 3/3/21 environmental coalition comments to NRC re: 80-year operating license application at Point Beach)

6.)   Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues (courtesy of David Kraft, NEIS, IL)

7.)   News article re: meteorological tsunami (giant wave) risks on Lake Michigan

Feel free to contact any of us for clarification or questions concerning these issues.

Now that your office has these materials available, we ask that you review them.  We will be contacting you individually to request appointments to discuss appropriate actions to be taken to protect Lake Michigan, now that you have been made aware of their existence and potential impacts.  From our point of view, no one can legitimately publicly claim to be protective of Lake Michigan while ignoring, deferring or not taking action on these nuclear topics.  We must have accountability, and because of the NRC’s rigid, legalistic and inflexible schedules and timelines, there is no longer any time to delay, neither on our part nor on yours.

Thank you for your consideration of these concerns.  We look forward to our conversations soon.

Be well.

Gratefully,

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear

Michael Keegan, Don’t Waste Michigan

Hannah Mortensen, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wisconsin

Ann Behrmann, M.D., Physicians for Social Responsibility, Wisconsin

David Kraft, Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Chicago IL

HALEU IN PORTSMOUTH, OH? Nuclear weapons proliferation and other grave risks!

U.S. Department of Energy info. graphic on HALEU. For legible size, see link in web post.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is poised to forego a more comprehensive National Environmental Policy Act review of American Centrifuge Plant/Centrus's scheme to generate High Assay Low Enriched Uranium in Portsmouth, OH, containing up to nearly 20% Uranium-235, considered weapons-grade. This HALEU "demonstration" is intended for use in so-called Small Modular Reactors or other "advanced" designs, by both the military and commercial nuclear power industry, both domestically and overseas. However, Tom Clements of Savannah River Site Watch alerted Ohio Nuclear Free Network legal counsel Terry Lodge of Toledo, who, along with 104 endorsing groups, has demanded NRC undertake a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, to address the scheme's grave proliferation, security, safety, health, and environmental risks.

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