The William
States Lee Station would include two AP1000 reactors on the Broad River.
Lee Station would be located at the previously unfinished and abandoned
Cherokee Plant construction site from the 1980’s and span across 1900 acres.
The Facts:
1) Lessons
learned from Fukushima and the US Fukushima Safety Task Force recommendations
to the NRC have not been applied.
Evacuation plans have not been explained.
2) The AP1000
reactor by Toshiba-Westinghouse is experimental and has serious
design flaws sited by many environmental groups
3) The Broad
River already supports Cliffside Coal Plant and a hydro electric dam to the north, Summer Nuclear Plant to
the south. The town of Union is 20 miles downstream and uses the river for their water supply.
4) The 47 million gallons of water use required for the plant
is dangerous to water levels during drought and climate change (temp change) which were
not addressed in the EIS.
5) The NRC’s safety
mile radius of 10 and 50 miles is not adequate distance and needs to include
any downwind or downstream locations or municipalities. Radiation has no boundaries or limited miles.
6) Nuclear Power
is a bad investment and Wall Street does not want to invest in it. The
Federal government has put the financial risk on the public through billions in
federal loan guarantees.
7) Construction
Work in Progress Laws passed by NC and SC have put preconstruction costs and
rate hikes on the backs of citizens.
8) Each reactor
cost $5 billion in 2007 but the estimate has jumped to $11 billion by
2011. It takes 10 yrs to build a plant.........the price will jump again.
9) There is no
safe level of radiation. Research shows children who live near nuclear
plants are at highest risk for leukemia.
10) Nuclear waste
remains radioactive for thousands of years and there is no safe storage
or federal repository that has been agreed upon.
11) There was no
alternative energy research done by Duke or the NRC to include solar at the
Gaffney site.
12) Uranium is a
finite source of energy and mining causes cancer, pollutes the land and water.
The proposed mining site at VA border
puts NC at risk.
13) Duke has already started to displace 86 homes to build pond C as
cooling backup (625 acres)
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