Limerick License Renewal - PLEASE TAKE ACTION! GET YOUR CONCERNS ON THE RECORD!

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ACTION ALERT


NRC IS DECIDING THE FATE OF OUR REGION



Your Health and Everything You Own

Are Further At Risk!



PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

GET YOUR CONCERNS ON THE RECORD!



Write NRC

DEADLINE 10-28-11



E-Mail: Lisa.Regner@NRC.gov



OR Mail To: U.S. NRC

Lisa Regner, License Renewal

Mailstop TWB-05-BO1 M

Washington, D.C. 20555



Include:

Limerick License Renewal - NRC I.D. Docket 2011-0166



PLEASE Forward This Information To Friends, Family, Neighbors, Co-Workers

Urge Them To Take Action!




NRC MUST STOP RE-LICENSING AGING NUCLEAR PLANTS LIKE LIMERICK

BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

LIMERICK MUST BE CLOSED, NOT RELICENSED,

TO PROTECT OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE



CONTACT ELECTED OFFICIALS TODAY

Ask Them To Contact NRC And

OPPOSE Limerick Relicensing



Their Voices Are Urgently Needed Too!

The Body Of Evidence For Them To Support This Request Is Overwhelming!

See Attached List Of Officials' Phones, Faxes, Addresses





Limerick Nuclear Plant's Harms and Threats

Profoundly Impact Millions Of The Region's Residents.



Limerick Harms and Threats Are Unprecedented!



Limerick Nuclear Plant's License Expires In 2029 - Exelon Wants To Run It Until 2049

Threats and Harms, Already Unacceptable After 26 Years, Are Increasing!



Since 1985, Unprecedented Environmental Harms, Threats, and Risks From Limerick Include:



1. Radiation Into Air and Water From Routine and Accidental Emissions



2. Major Air Pollution Under Health Based Standards of the Clean Air Act



3. Schuylkill River Depletion and Major Drinking Water Contamination



4. Radioactive Groundwater Contamination



5. Radiation Reporting Levels Increased Dramatically After Japan Disaster



6. Alarming Cancer Increases, Especially In Children, Since Limerick Started Operating



7. Deadly High Level Radioactive Wastes Packed In Vulnerable Fuel Pools On Site



8. Lax Fire Safety Regulations



9. Accidents and Leaks From Corroding, Deteriorating Equipment Plus Miles of Buried Pipes and Cables



10. Increased Risk of Meltdown From More Frequent and Stronger Earthquakes and

Other Natural Disasters



11. Threats From Unguarded Terrorist Attacks With Planes and Missiles, Cyber Attacks



12. Need for an Updated Evacuation Plan and Increased EPZ



13. Increased Costs to the Public - More Cancers and Other Costly Illnesses, More

Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations from Massive Increases in PM-10 and TDS, Treatment of Public Drinking Water, Environmental Clean-Up



14. Dangerous, Dirty, Harmful, and Costly Nuclear Power Is Not Needed. It Can And Should Be Replaced With Safe, Clean, Renewable Energy.



List Compiled By The Alliance For A Clean Environment - September 2011



Conclusion: Harms, threats, and risks can and should be expected to increase continuously until Limerick's current operating licenses expire in 2029. It woulACTION ALERT




NRC IS DECIDING THE FATE OF OUR REGION



Your Health and Everything You Own

Are Further At Risk!



PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

GET YOUR CONCERNS ON THE RECORD!



Write NRC

DEADLINE 10-28-11



E-Mail: Lisa.Regner@NRC.gov



OR Mail To: U.S. NRC

Lisa Regner, License Renewal

Mailstop TWB-05-BO1 M

Washington, D.C. 20555



Include:

Limerick License Renewal - NRC I.D. Docket 2011-0166



PLEASE Forward This Information To Friends, Family, Neighbors, Co-Workers

Urge Them To Take Action!




NRC MUST STOP RE-LICENSING AGING NUCLEAR PLANTS LIKE LIMERICK

BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

LIMERICK MUST BE CLOSED, NOT RELICENSED,

TO PROTECT OVER 8 MILLION PEOPLE



CONTACT ELECTED OFFICIALS TODAY

Ask Them To Contact NRC And

OPPOSE Limerick Relicensing



Their Voices Are Urgently Needed Too!

The Body Of Evidence For Them To Support This Request Is Overwhelming!

See Attached List Of Officials' Phones, Faxes, Addresses





Limerick Nuclear Plant's Harms and Threats

Profoundly Impact Millions Of The Region's Residents.



Limerick Harms and Threats Are Unprecedented!



Limerick Nuclear Plant's License Expires In 2029 - Exelon Wants To Run It Until 2049

Threats and Harms, Already Unacceptable After 26 Years, Are Increasing!



Since 1985, Unprecedented Environmental Harms, Threats, and Risks From Limerick Include:



1. Radiation Into Air and Water From Routine and Accidental Emissions



2. Major Air Pollution Under Health Based Standards of the Clean Air Act



3. Schuylkill River Depletion and Major Drinking Water Contamination



4. Radioactive Groundwater Contamination



5. Radiation Reporting Levels Increased Dramatically After Japan Disaster



6. Alarming Cancer Increases, Especially In Children, Since Limerick Started Operating



7. Deadly High Level Radioactive Wastes Packed In Vulnerable Fuel Pools On Site



8. Lax Fire Safety Regulations



9. Accidents and Leaks From Corroding, Deteriorating Equipment Plus Miles of Buried Pipes and Cables



10. Increased Risk of Meltdown From More Frequent and Stronger Earthquakes and

Other Natural Disasters



11. Threats From Unguarded Terrorist Attacks With Planes and Missiles, Cyber Attacks



12. Need for an Updated Evacuation Plan and Increased EPZ



13. Increased Costs to the Public - More Cancers and Other Costly Illnesses, More

Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations from Massive Increases in PM-10 and TDS, Treatment of Public Drinking Water, Environmental Clean-Up



14. Dangerous, Dirty, Harmful, and Costly Nuclear Power Is Not Needed. It Can And Should Be Replaced With Safe, Clean, Renewable Energy.



List Compiled By The Alliance For A Clean Environment - September 2011



Conclusion: Harms, threats, and risks can and should be expected to increase continuously until Limerick's current operating licenses expire in 2029. It would be irresponsible for NRC to approve license renewals until 2049.



Attached Are Packets Which Can Be Printed And Circulated.

They Clarify Some Issues Above Including:

A. Limerick's Routine Radiation Releases Linked To Skyrocketing Cancer Increases

B. Limerick Destroying The Schuylkill River

C. Meltdowns, Evacuation Plans, Emergency Plans

D. NRC's Weakened Regulations, Lax Enforcement, Negligence, Rubberstamp Permitting

E. News - Articles On NRC'S Failed Policies and Oversight

F. Exelon Deception

G. Financial Injustice and Deception

H. Limerick's Electric Can Be Replaced - There Is No Need To Relicense Dirty, Dangerous, Costly Limerick Nuclear Power

I. Solar News Dispels Exelon "Myths"



For more information on harms, threats, and risks from Limerick Nuclear Power Plant

Visit: www.acereport.org



For Questions Or If You Can't Open Attachments

Contact ACE (610) 326-2387 aceactivists@comcast.net



Why Your Voice Is Urgently Needed!



Exelon is buying silence and support for their profits over your health and safety, through campaign contributions and donations. Your voice is needed in support of your interests instead of Exelon's profits.





NRC's public hearing 9-22-11 was stacked in favor of Limerick relicensing by a parade of people with a vested interest for one reason or another. They focused on financial issues, while ignoring unprecedented harm and risks to the health and safety of you and your family. Many supported Limerick relicensing based on outright lies, claiming Limerick was clean, safe, and reliable. Facts clearly dispute those lies. Limerick is filthy, NOT clean. Limerick is a ticking time bomb, NOT safe. Nuclear power is NOT always on. It has had to be shut down (sometimes, for long periods), due to earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, drought and heat, human error, and more.



Exelon's contributions are buying silence and support at the expense of your family's health and safety. Officials and organizations have either remained silent or supported Limerick relicensing , in spite of overwhelming evidence of unprecedented harms and risks provided to them by ACE for many years.



Too many value campaign contributions and donations over your health and safety. Just two examples:

· PA Representative Tom Quigley took $5,000 from Exelon in campaign contributions and spoke in favor of relicensing, claiming it was because only two people contacted his office opposed to Limerick relicensing.

· Limerick's threats and harms to the Schuylkill River, a vital drinking water source for almost two million people from Pottstown to Philadelphia, are unparalleled. Yet, the Schuylkill River Heritage Foundation, that should be protecting the river, instead turns a blind eye for Exelon's donations. Tim Fenschel, Schuylkill River Heritage Member, testified to NRC 9-22-11 In Pottstown, in support of Limerick relicensing.



The facts clearly show it is not in our best interests for Limerick Nuclear Plant to be relicensed from 2029 to 2049. We don't need Limerick's dirty, dangerous, and costly electricity. Limerick's electric can be replaced long before 2029, in spite of Exelon's desperate deceptive attempts to suggest otherwise,



It is too dangerous to operate beyond 2029. Limerick Nuclear Plant was licensed for 40years, based on its life expectancy. Yet, Exelon and NRC are trying to claim otherwise. Shamefully, while claiming parts are being replaced, at the same time NRC and industry admit some parts (which can become brittle and wear thin), are too big and too expensive to replace.

Many of you could not attend the public hearing for a wide variety of reasons.

Ø BUT, there is still an opportunity for you to have your concerns counted on the record.





PLEASE TAKE TIME TO SPEAK UP NOW! DEADLINE OCTOBER 28, 2011



1. Contact NRC. GET YOUR CONCERNS ON NRC'S PUBLIC HEARING RECORD.

E-Mail: Lisa.Regner@NRC.gov

OR Mail To: U.S. NRC

Lisa Regner, License Renewal

Mailstop TWB-05-BO1 M

Washington, D.C. 20555



2. Call or write all elected officials today. They can make a huge difference!

In many other states and nations, elected officials have taken action to protect the health, safety, and future of their citizens, working to close their nuclear plants. URGE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CONTACT NRC AND OPPOSE LIMERICK RELICENSING - BEFORE 10-28-11.

Phone, Fax, Address List Attached.



Questions? Contact Donna Cuthbert

(610) 326-2387 or aceactivists@comcast.net



More Information - www.acereport.org

Watch "The ACE Report" PCTV, Channel 28, Tuesdays, 7 to 8 P.M.



Background:



The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is the agency charged with protecting public health and safety, and the environment related to the operations of nuclear plants. NRC has been required to do an Environmental Impact Statement on Limerick Nuclear Plant in relation to relicensing from 2029 to 2049. NRC is taking public comments on Limerick Nuclear Plant's environmental harms and threats to public health and safety until October 28, 2011.



Ø If you don't speak out, Limerick Nuclear Plant's unprecedented environmental harms and threats will be ignored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an agency all too happy to ignore them on behalf of Exelon's profits.



It is imperative for you to get your comments on NRC's public hearing record.

ü NRC's weakened regulations, lax enforcement, and negligence have destroyed their credibility and left us vulnerable to disaster.

ü NRC has been called more of a lapdog than a watchdog.

ü NRC has been promoting nuclear power, rather than protecting our health and safety.



Environmental and Cancer Harms and Threats

· Since 1985, Limerick has poisoned our air, water, vegetation, soil, food, and us with a broad range of radionuclides from routine operations. The National Academy of Sciences and Physicians for Social Responsibility have said there is no safe level of radiation exposure. Obviously, Limerick has been a major factor in cancer rates in six communities near Limerick that skyrocketed far above the national average, from 1985 when Limerick started operating to the late1990s, especially in children. See attached Radiation and Cancer Links.

· Each day Limerick operates, more radiation will be released increasing our risk for cancer and other health harms. But that's not all. ACE recently learned from Limerick's most recent air pollution and water contamination permits that Exelon requested drastic increases in dangerous air pollution from Limerick's cooling towers, discharges from Limerick into the Schuylkill River at four times Safe Drinking Water Standards, and more pumping of contaminated unfiltered mine water to supplement the Schuylkill River flow to operate Limerick. Exelon is also asking to eliminate important river safeguards and public participation and to reduce monitoring. Limerick had leaks and spills that contaminated the groundwater with radiation.



Elected and agency officials, regional organizations, spoke for Exelon's profits, not your health and safety.

· At NRC's public hearing September 22, 2011 in Pottstown, too many Exelon executives and those with a vested interest totally disregarded the reality of unprecedented risks and harms to our region from Limerick Nuclear Plant operating 60 years. They shamelessly supported Limerick relicensing, valuing Exelon's profits and donations to their campaigns and/or special interests, over the health and safety of millions.

· Attached is a letter I submitted to the Mercury, identifying some of the elected officials who failed to take a position to protect our region and its residents. Only one elected official spoke on behalf of public interests, Michael Moyer, East Coventry Supervisor. His letter is attached.



The financial injustice of Limerick Nuclear Plant is appalling!

· As ratepayers and taxpayers we've been victimized far too long by Limerick Nuclear Plant and its owners PECO/Exelon. Attached is a summary of the economic injustice we suffered as a result of Limerick.



Only closing Limerick can prevent the potential for catastrophic consequences from a meltdown.

· Limerick cannot be made failsafe. Prevention is imperative! The evacuation plan is based on illusion. Attached is a summary about earthquakes and other risk factors for meltdown.



PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS.

ENCOURAGE THEM TO SPEAK OUT NOW TOO.