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I was deeply disappointed to realize that I had missed out on attending not one, but two recent public hearings on the subject of the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the re–licensing ― a very preliminary stage, but one which the antinuclear crowd has already used to make their usual noise.

There is still a little time for you to submit a comment, which can be done here.

My full comment can be read on Patreon (without paying), and on the government site once it’s processed, but here’s the first part of it.

As a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, I benefit directly from the operation of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant.

In my opinion, to remove 2200 megawatts of dependable, emissions-free, reasonably-priced electrical generation from the Texas grid, without some truly urgent cause, would be an act of deliberate injury to the public health and welfare. People would die. The scope of any Environmental Impact Statement relating to the renewal of the operating licenses for Comanche Peak must include the risks and harms of inadequate power supply, even of total grid collapse, in its scope.

My household did not lose power during the crisis of February 2021, which was a very good thing for my 98-year-old grandmother. Since then, we have repeatedly seen warnings from ERCOT, some of them during periods of fair weather and moderate demand, that there is inadequate generating capacity margin on the Texas grid, and curtailments have been undertaken to protect grid stability. This is contrary to the ethos of the central-station electric utility system, which is to supply power so dependably that large users will not feel the need to install their own supplies, and then leverage economies of scale to provide near-universal service at prices everyone can afford. The social benefit inherent in this model is immense, and one might reasonably say it is the foundation of our modern world.

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MU’s Pickard Hall to be demolished after a decade of radiation testing

University officials have reluctantly decided that MU's third-oldest building, long contaminated by radioactive material from a lab there in the early 1900s, will be demolished.

Here is another example of the absurdity of the current radiation-protection regime, which focuses on a single hazard to the exclusion of all others, and insists that any exposure at all to ionizing radiation must be justified ― even though the average person’s exposure is dominated by cosmic and terrestrial radiation.

The hypervigilance of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has its uses. Nuclear plants are by far the most reliable, best-run components on the systems of utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric or Detroit Edison, which have disastrously underinvested in other infrastructure. But it also leads to ludicrous outcomes like this.

What’s not clear, he said, is whether radiation has seeped into the soil around the building. University officials said they couldn’t test for that without NRC approval, the NRC wouldn’t give the approval for testing without knowing exactly what material the university was looking for and where it was.

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