WASHINGTON DC – Two public meetings to be conducted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which are intended to give area residents an opportunity to comment on environmental issues they think the NRC should consider as it contemplates requests to renew operating licenses for Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station, will be held Sept. 22 (2011; Thursday) at 2 and 7 p.m. in Sunnybrook Ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Rd., Sanatoga PA, the commission announced.
An open house, during which residents can also personally meet with NRC staff members, will be held for an hour before each of the two meetings, at 1 and 6 p.m. respectively. Also at the meetings, staff members will describe the license renewal review process.
Related (to federal re-licensing of Limerick Generating Station):
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Time to pitch to the NRC that Limerick needs an overhaul of all of it systems, sensors, computers, as well as a place other than the pool there to store the waste spent fuel.
What are they doing to remove this spent fuel, and move it out of this highly populated region to a place where it can be stored more safely?
What studies if any have been done to make the reactors more efficient, and somehow produce less waste heat and reduce the amount of water for cooling needed?
I plan to attend and pose these questions. Anyone else going?