Environmental Impact Statement - radioactive monticello

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Appendix A Response: The text in Section 2.2.5 of this SEIS has been changed based on the information provided in these comments. A.2.9 Comments Concerning Terrestrial Resources Comment: We feel fortunate that the location of the Monticello plant rests on the banks of the Mississippi River within close proximity of the Montissippi County Park and the Lake Mariah State Park. The site is home to a wide variety of wildlife, aquatic species, and plant life. Our efforts have made the site a safe and sound habitat for many years, and it remains our commitment to maintaining that for the years to come. (C-2) Response: This comment is supportive of NMC's management of the existing surrounding habitat and is general in nature. This comment does not provide new and significant information;.therefore, no changes were made to the SEIS text. A.2.10 Comments Concerning Threatened and Endangered Species Comment: Page 4-43, Line 15: The MOU that Xcel has entered into is with the FWS only, not the MNDNR. Remove "and MNDNR". (F-19) Response: The text in Section 4.6.2 of this SEIS has been changed based on the information provided in this comment. A.2.11 Comments Concerning Human Health Issues Comment: Let's just look at how we monitor for radiation releases as an example. Acknowledging that the radionuclides are released, where do they go You haven't a clue. Your monitoring doesn't tell you where they go. Your monitoring says where you don't find them, but you're not looking for where they are. They're out there. You let them go. And all you have to define what happens after you release them are some calculations and some modeling that tell us nothing about where they go. Well, the Bier VII says that there's no such thing as a safe dose. You acknowledge that you're releasing radionuclides, and it is absolutely untenable to conclude, with no data and only calculations, that none of them are inhaled or ingested by humans. You have no scientific basis, no factual basis, no data to support such a contention. You have calculations and dispersion models, and that's all you have. Where do they go So you don't look for where they are, you don't find them, and therefore it's not detectable, therefore it's small. You see, quite arguably what this means is that while you're looking at this as a dispersion, dilution being a solution, what another I would say more rational person could argue is that what you've created is a very efficient distribution mechanism in which the maximum number of people can have the opportunity to get enough of it inside of them to cause the cancers. And it NUREG-1437, Supplement 26 A-46 August 2006 1
Appendix A turns out that we don't have the cancer registries on a county-by-county basis to really allow us to come to those conclusions because of the way they're compared. But if you look at it the way it could be, you will see elevated concentrations of particulate cancers in communities that are in close proximity to the reactors. But you don't look at that, so it's small. Small compared to what Small compared to background Well, you see some of us now finally understand the difference between background radiation and the insult when the radiation is ingested or inhaled. Entirely different things. Background is background. Why do you think your thigh bones are so big It's to keep the background out. But once it's inside of you each radionuclide becomes very, very efficient at causing the destruction that ultimately leads to the cancer. Small. No facts. Conjecture. Subjective. (B-2) Response: The amounts of radioactive isotopes released from Monticello in liquid and gaseous effluents are constantly monitored and recorded by NMC. The meteorological conditions at the site are also constantly monitored and recorded. NRC health physics experts routinely inspect these monitoring programs to ensure that they are being properly conducted. All of this information is fed into calculational models that estimate the amount of radiation dose a member of the public might receive. The calculational models are in the ODCM and have been reviewed and approved by the NRC. These models include estimates of dose from internally deposited radioactive isotopes as well as direct radiation exposure. In addition, NMC conducts an environmental radiological monitoring program in the area around Monticello. The program samples and measures the amount of radioactive isotopes in the air, water, soil, and agricultural products and measures direct radiation from the plant. This program confirms that the levels of radioactive isotopes in the environment that are predicted by the computer dose models. The State of Minnesota also conducts an environmental radiological monitoring program around Monticello that confirms the results of NMC's program. These programs show that the radiation doses to members of the public from operation of Monticello are very low, well within the limits set by NRC and EPA, and very small compared the dose from natural background sources of radiation. In spring 2006, the National Research Council of the National Academies published, "Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, BEIR VII Phase 2." A pre-publication version of the report was made public in June 2005. The major conclusion of the report is that current scientific evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that there is a linear, no-threshold dose response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of cancer in humans. This conclusion is consistent with the system of radiological protection that *the NRC uses to develop its regulations. Therefore, the NRC`S regulations continue to be adequately protective of public health and safety and the environment. None of the findings in the BEIR VII report warrant changes to the NRC regulations. The BEIR VII,1 report does not say there is no safe level of exposure to radiation; it does not address "safe versus not safe" It does continue to support the conclusion that there is some amount of cancer risk associated with any amount of radiation exposure and that risk increases with exposure and exposure rate. It does also conclude that risk of cancer induction at the dose levels in NRC's and EPA's radiation standards is very small. Similar conclusions have been made in all of the associated August 2006 A-47 NUREG-1437, Supplement 26 I
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