Dr. Marvin Resnikoff Member of the NEC Radioactive Waste Management Associates, Bellows Falls, VT - gave his background - showed a graph of long half-lives. His point: how long isotopes last (not how long they are a concern) - Industry doesn’t know everything, mentioning the proposed entombment of the Elk River plant -West Valley plant decommissioning costs were huge. (I asked what kind of power plant it was, knowing the answer. He replied that it was a Reprocessing - showed a BWR schematic, to locate radioactive components - showed a BWR containment section drawing. It was not a MK I like Vermont Yankee. No one said anything. - steel and concrete become radioactive - in response to a question, 60 is an arbitrary number it (SAFESTOR) – could be more or less. - we want to push Entergy to do dismantling - showed a Dry Cask section drawing and described air flow. A member said the gas was hydrogen! It is helium. He said 5 casks at Vermont Yankee did not have leak done. - decommissioning costs and history were reviewed. He pointed out that Entergy bought TLG and their estimate was then lower than the previous estimate, described as a plot by Entergy. - in response to a question, he was confused on whether fuel is to be in or out of the pool for SAFESTOR - Yankee (Rowe, MA) botched the job (of its decommissioning) Deb Katz - the question was asked, is Vermont Yankee the first single unit BWR merchant plant to be decommissioned? This report refutes Dr. Resnikoff’s report in radioactivity in natural gas, and says he flunked the Health Physics exam http://energyindepth.org/wpcontent/ uploads/2011/02/Marcellus_NORM_drill_cutting_response.pdf Brice Simon Attorney for NEC (spoke without notes or slides. Points not in the order given) - This (the litigation) is more like a Rugby Scrum - It is difficult to understand the impact a like NEC has
Dr. Marvin Resnikoff Member of the NEC Radioactive Waste Management Associates, Bellows Falls, VT - gave his background - showed a graph of long half-lives. His point: how long isotopes last (not how long they are a concern) - Industry doesn’t know everything, mentioning the proposed entombment of the Elk River plant -West Valley plant decommissioning costs were huge. (I asked what kind of power plant it was, knowing the answer. He replied that it was a Reprocessing - showed a BWR schematic, to locate radioactive components - showed a BWR containment section drawing. It was not a MK I like Vermont Yankee. No one said anything. - steel and concrete become radioactive - in response to a question, 60 is an arbitrary number – it (SAFESTOR) could be more or less. - we want to push Entergy to do dismantling - showed a Dry Cask section drawing and described air flow. A member said the gas was hydrogen! It is helium. He said 5 casks at Vermont Yankee did not have leak done. - decommissioning costs and history were reviewed. He pointed out that Entergy bought TLG and their estimate was then lower than the previous estimate, described as a plot by Entergy. - in response to a question, he was confused on whether fuel is to be in or out of the pool for SAFESTOR - Yankee (Rowe, MA) botched the job (of its decommissioning) Deb Katz - the question was asked, is Vermont Yankee the first single unit BWR merchant plant to be decommissioned? This report refutes Dr. Resnikoff’s report in radioactivity in natural gas, and says he flunked the Health Physics exam http://energyindepth.org/wpcontent/ uploads/2011/02/Marcellus_NORM_drill_cutting_response.pdf Brice Simon Attorney for NEC (spoke without notes or slides. Points not in the order given) - This (the litigation) is more like a Rugby Scrum - It is difficult to understand the impact a like NEC has
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