for our virtual participation I want to
start with safety message um one that
we've been talking about a little bit
within our company uh lately but it's
really I was thinking about it over the
weekend as I was trying to dodge the
rain and do some work around the outs of
our house as it's springtime and
cleaning some stuff up is both a
combination of the pre-job brief and uh
adequate PP which is means a little
something different um in the nuclear
world but I was applying it to personal
life which um when you're doing yard
work or work on house or anything even
though you're at home it's good to make
sure you have all the necessary PPE I
had a colleague who was saying were
trying to um clean their deck and up
with uh no safety goggles and ends up
almost you know baching their eyes
because they
were it's good thing that even though
you're going out to do um Shores are
regular tasks in your house it's good to
check make sure you have all the
supplies and all you before you start
any of those jobs is something I know I
think very
well I home and this weekend I did not
adequately do that I had to make
multiple trips back to uh Home Depot to
get additional supplies I
underestimated you can also save
yourself time if you actually think
about that
perform uh so again we have um a couple
virtual um participants so uh Scott C
from BWC had let me know he had a um
emergency contact conflict come up so he
need to dep participate virally he
contacted me um virtually to to let me
know that Ronnie is also outside of our
uh 60m radius and so from travel
constraints is also participa virtually
Mary um just so in the future um if you
need to participate virtually you do
need to have notification on what the
conflict is and Ryan can give you more
okay I'm sorry yeah it's a family matter
and I'm in um North Carolina no problem
that I I understand and um so for for
this meeting I don't think we're going
to other than the the meeting minutes
who don't have anything significant that
we're voting on um so you can still
participate today um and and the virtual
observation and we'll have some input
areas but um if we have to vote on
anything um you won't be able to do that
today um but uh I would like a motion to
um allow Ronnie and Scott to participate
uh virtually I have a motion on
that Andrew Andrew H promotion is
second that's sorry
um and then we will need to call the
rooll and and vote on that Ryan are you
going to do the roll card or we just
need to
vote okay I didn't know okay so all in
favor any
oppos okay great so um I would like to
go around the room because um I want to
welcome Eric Carr from Dominion Energy
um who is our new uh representative for
for Dominion um so Eric you want
okay yeah so morning everyone I will
just introduce
myself Dominion almost a year
ago very well I um spend about 12 years
of my career with
Exon
being
operator Pennsylvania
at SP 15 years
PG their res including their
off Jersey
thank you um and why don't we for for
why don't we go around um the
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and uh
Scott sure good morning everyone Scott
Coppel
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welcome
Ronnie I'm Ronnie Smith and I'm a
private citizen with h you know 40 years
in the nuclear industry been retired for
quite a
while but have great interest in in the
good morning Mary new with
ureno great um and David did you want to
introduce yourself as well sure uh David
Essa and I'm the director of the sec's
division of public utility regulations
so I'm commission staff thank
you thank
you okay um so we'll go ahead and get
started I'm going to turn it over to um
director Davis to talk to us a little
about the
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hen way this works the reac was Bill
during the general assembly
that's the
um final version has a
conflict where it actually allows them
to go R conflicts with
Department of energy
Department that being said
um regard this this money the way it
actually works is if there's an En that
has one of these projects
nuclear that
fora it could come to se um the SE the
government with between three and 5% of
question
so for the project um
the million of
it
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depart that
and it
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opportunity inside of this uh my team at
Department of energy
this spot on something like this is
typically between
7 compx
but in some cases it can be multiple
projects that come together
umon
and one
is are you all the lead for that
or
soia we are looking for
project who's the do you all have a
project manager contact with office so
right now um it's for myself reach out
to one of us
um
this um so we don't necessarily have
projects obviously we're looking for
inovation power generation
opportunities govern all
the so I
would how does this interact
with long guarantee office so you're
talking about 20% Equity you then take
that and get go to L with your project
as
well it does sound
okay what's the term how long will this
program how long is the window
open so you know we have a bunch around
so you know you never know on this thing
um what's interesting though the amation
schedule so we've had conversation with
them on some various projects and we'
have flexation schedu so once the Mone
out obviously the money's out right um
so how old will beiz
projects that have come to you already
you have to
specific examples that yes so we've
got
that um the goal
is but there's
first and we can up
anybody online
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Scott yeah oh Mary do you have a
question go ahead oh no I don't no I was
going to say it's a little it is a
little difficult to hear or at least for
me it was yeah um same same here so if
I'm I'm if I'm repeating
um something Glenn you've already said I
apologize um is this focused on and I'm
coming at this from the
nuclear perspective is this focused on
the grid or also say micro reactors and
you know potential application you know
for industrial end users you know
obviously in Northern Virginia lots of
talking data centers different parts of
the country interested in different
things whether it's petrochemical mining
industry
sort of Niche industrial applications
for nuclear um versus other energy types
um or is this more focused on the grid
forgive me if you've already said this I
just it's hard to
hear question the answer yes so it's
focused
on
be the us at
and the big obviously the St had to as
well because we've got put
some but no it's uh extremely wide open
from
ail thank
you okay great so
um thanks GL that's really helpful I
think this is something that is another
really good tool in the toolkit for
Commonwealth for both economic
development but energy specif sure um
April let me turn it over to you for the
for the V
version um so C up on the general
assembly
ow but for our Focus was mainly just
educating new members there is I believe
30% new L officials during this
legislative session and so we really
took effort to get to know a lot of them
and then remind them was the leg
createda for that it's to Virginia and
then um so we had a lot of good meetings
the other thing is that we did is we
supported HB
1491 and Senate Bill 454 those both of
those bills will helped um maity one
andity two which is on Dominion on cost
recovering there a really significant
wins for us this session um and I have
to say Gary they and as students once
again they really came out and supported
us and really appreciated youc students
helping us out um they made a real big
impact speaking the registrators it's
one thing when I don't talk about you
know jobs and stuff but
they they make a difference and they
have job so just want
Toge one of the things that we're going
to do this fall with legislators is
offer an
education um and half for them to come
to I believe it's going to be at UC so
this come to D education on
101l it's more of an opportunity to
understand what we're doing and why we
doing and why we
so to hear more about that
um the other thing that is working on
right
now that up
and we're suppose to having executive
director and should actually officially
be operating um June with an executive
director right now I'm executive
director um we have a board um the board
will we'll be looking into new executive
direct of the board uh we'll be adding
new members but we're moving forward we
have a lot of our paperwork done um so
it's uh we're close um couple of things
that we're looking
at working on is put together the
Natural Science Foundation engine um
letter for that um and also a couple
other projects that um R know we talked
about a research reactor for a long time
so hopefully you know we'll see that
becoming moving forward at some point um
on
the she plan I know Ryan sent that out
to everybody um when we're back here um
need to update that already but you know
last time we did it was during the
during in 2020 um this is legislation
that was passed in 2020 and that you
know we have to do every provide the
state of yourent
plan um this is a great outline it's
helped us get where we are today um we
definitely need it to help us go further
um I think a lot of things have changed
in the last four years um but I could
definitely use everyone's input we will
I'll put Google form together going so
we can send that out to the membership
and you all can supply any feedback you
want to but also we'll be holding a
couple meeting
um this year in August we will going to
do a summit um we'll do with the CDP
they will be providing an economic
development presentation on the value
proposition that they put together for
the new industry with industry and then
um also that sum will go through the
Strategic plan and evaluate what we need
to have there and I'll probably have
another meeting in lychburg as well so
those are a couple of things that we
have going on I'm also looking at trying
to put together um education expance
with communties and decision makers that
still be worked out but that'll probably
be that'll start sometime this
fall have any
questions um can you walk through for
those um we have some new members that
and frankly I think a lot of our
Authority was not here in 2020 when we
put together the um the Strategic plan
can you can you just walk through kind
of what the the pillars are I know we
sent this out um in advance but
afterwards I think we would like to
start having a discussion here about
potential areas um of input and then
obviously that can extend to the the
working do but since we only have our
groups every so often
yeah we you know we have four buckets um
Workforce advanced
technology um
Innovation and so we're just looking at
these items of how we can move the
industry forward I actually think we
probably need to add economics to it as
well um
and um but we need to look at that this
is just a starting point um to to see
for us to get launched and focus on few
and you been hug with one of those
issues advancing of the reactors and
Advan reactors that was something we
focus on um Workforce Development and we
continue to work on that um so and
obviously Workforce is still a major
issue so we'll continue to but we need
to look at anything that we think that
need that we need to be putting in place
to advance the industry so we are ready
for when indry goes forward on the point
small or anything else I mean I um Dr L
brought up to me about heing do we want
to improve heing into this uhic time you
know four years ago was a little
different place it's some further so do
we want to add that into the
conversation those things all need be
talked about and
this so I think um one thing just for
perspective um in in 2019 uh April
convened um a similar Summit which was
talking about for August where we had
this public of Virginia is nuclear
Summit um most of the companies and
organizations in this room um had
participants there that was where a lot
of the initial ideas foreg strategic
plan um kind originated it was a great
dayong and both briefing on the industry
but also brain storm that was kind of
the whole afternoon a brain storm of um
ideas which evolve into um the Strategic
plan document the next year and I think
one thing to highlight with this and why
it's a real
opportunity that I think we all need to
to focus on is if you go back and as you
look at the Strategic plan as April kind
of indicated a lot of the ideas became
the road map for a lot of the
legislation and activity that's followed
the last four years
right so vhub was an idea that was in um
the Strategic plan but many of the
workforce issues and the um the 17th
energy cluster um those that was in the
plan some of the ideas I think even that
you know in different iterations that
you could you could point to kind of the
the cost recovery bills that came
through this legislature as they have
the seeds in the the strategic planning
so I mean what we as the authority but
then also reaching back into your
organization your
companies what then as we look at the
next four years what are the things not
only to build on um was already there
there's some things in the Strategic
plan that have been accomplished it
should probably be carried over into the
next one um because there was a lot in
there if you if youve read through that
it's a very robust document but I think
I want to emphasize that it's a great
resource um
for the legislature for the governor's
office I want speak for for Glen but I
know the governor's office utilized a
lot of the input that was in she plan as
they started developing their energy
plan um in
2022 um
so that's kind of the backdround um for
the the conversation we wanted to start
here today and I don't expect that we're
going to start just you know
whiteboarding a bunch of ideas I think
as April said we would like to have you
all provide um input either through you
directly or as a f from your
organizations to start feeding ideas
into um April as we looked to update
this document the the timeline I believe
is this is this fall that
it's yeah a report due to November 1st
so we have Ryan's kind of scheduled out
the additional
um timeline for meetings for the um for
this gr for the next two quarters I
guess is um and so we will review um and
provide approval
or changes but but some blessing before
that November 1 timeline so that that
can go to
the so I wanted to just open it up and
allow if if um areas or or thoughts that
folks um had on where we should be
focusing on this update or things that
were highlighted in the previous
strategic plan that maybe weren't you
know haven't been completed yet that we
should be expanding
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on remember this is when we look at the
plan look at the longing
short way that we need to get to for the
long game and that isoy for Advan eff
and more power so that's what we need to
look at and we also need to look at what
we need to do with Workforce and
research to get us where we need to go
here in Virginia to get more people into
the workforce um anded um one of the
programs on side that we're trying to
work with with ANS is getting their safe
CL education as a free opportunity to
School different you see it's doing that
but what else can we do to attract
students into this
industry you mentioned the
resarch specific there
nothing I have no faic yet it's just
know something I think that would been
up if you have a real opportunity to
keep that into this seconds and also
start really focusing on that
opportunity it's one
I think it's that one piece in the
circle
we it'sing
that I think you know we'll have the
ability toint out to explore it
more I get Brian the grle link this week
so he can send it out to all so you guys
can
um what input have
on or change
um that back
us so um if I can but ask you
so I think that it what well two things
one is um I know we talked a little bit
about our first virtual meeting but I
think it would be helpful and I'll work
with you on this for our meeting is to
maybe have a good a super on
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Fusion it's worth um starting to explore
but as you've looked at the at this
previous can plan you see from your work
in on on Fusion research is there
somewhere that that fits in to kind of
the next the next four
years looking looking through and making
notes
places question
mark part of
so um just the guiding princip
for talk about developing Nu
Workforce
a so
for into that we are actually having a
conference
work supposed to help
think about Direction their
funding
work also
got what is Theus what is you f to
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investment
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this scale
accelerator we building a small tabletop
accelerator per at
education and and
some training
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research people
help you put together a
speaker so the other area
and you on this as well is obviously the
the demand landscape is quite different
now than four years ago um and the user
base it is grown exponentially for
people look at projections for um
electricity demand over the next you
know even just five years and so I do
wonder if we consider how does that you
know play into some of you know
especially the pillar of some of the the
role
within system but also in our in our
planning from a nuclear specific
standpoint how that that whether we want
to consider anything strategic
plan I take at the Strategic plan a
little more
closely
things from an industry
standpoint press Go Button around
but I think there's a number of
initiatives in
play CEOs
industry
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loc lot of just Creative Solutions to
what entities that are br
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youen yeah I think well so one other
question I guess I
have is so if I remember back to 2019
when we had this Summit it was mostly
the organizations around this table plus
um Nei and USNC Representatives
um some of the labor unions and and
other you know kind of supplier
companies other than dominion and appco
there weren't any other there weren't
any other utilities which makes sense in
Virginia there weren't lot users so I
guess that warrants a question of does
it make sense from your perspective to
have some of these whether it be the the
data center companies
or some the other large industrial users
and at the table for this part is
discussion we're having a lot of those
discussions at the meeting right now a
brain hasn't been a lot of AC yet so I
think it is fairly in in infancy around
get them to the table and how do we also
make sure they all see the the
challenges that we're fa so they can be
part of the solution as supposed to you
know
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problem
bring there's a lot of that
happen working along those Lin to bring
those together and BR to one this a good
problem
talking about of is real and what
Ro and then um Scott if I
can call on you maybe as well one of the
areas that we' had um in the in the
previous strategic plan that I don't
think has
been highlighted or we worked on that
this is let's call it the nonelectric El
nuclear applications right so whether it
be space or Isotopes um some of the
other uses uh they address a little bit
I I think there's value in carrying that
forward into this next strategic plan
and if they're I'm looking to BWC this
is your involvement with with NASA and
the states program and also Isotopes um
if there's a role for that to be
highlighted more maybe in
consideration yeah it's just again it's
hard to hear and don't want to disrupt
the flow of conversation but yeah the
non non I guess I'll say
non-traditional applications I'd be more
than happy to to help put a pen to that
and we could talk offline too about the
thinking um and how to how to properly
capture all that um in a broad sense but
yes be happy to I guess take the pen if
you will and help with that
section yeah that that great I I think
we I'd appreciate that I know um if we
look at you know there's been a lot of
changes on the electricity demand I
think there's been a lot of great
evolutions on the non-traditional
nuclear as well whether it be space um
and the medical
Isotopes not a ton of it has happened in
Virginia even though it's with a lot of
Virginia companies maybe we can use the
Strategic plan to to change that a
little bit but that would be great yeah
happy to work on that we can talk
offline again it's it's it's just hard
to hear and again don't want to disrupt
what seems like good flow in the room so
thanks
yep the other thing it's different that
where we're at today versus where we did
the 2019 Summit and
also um BWC is further along with their
micro reactor but we also have small mod
reative companies and advanc reactive
companies that were involved in being
that so they'll have a voice as well
which is going to be an interesting
perspective and so I think we'll have a
definitely a bigger conversation
with yeah I a personal interest in
admire are you going to be pushing that
admire yeah we definitely be part of
conversation
which do that looks like something that
Virginia could be a first sort of
falling behind some of the other states
and moving into
SMR you know it's funny I hear that we
fall behind sometimes but you know
honestly think we're not behind anywhere
we're actually right over me to be in
fact more and more places ask me to come
and speak because they want to know what
work
doing because we are further ahead I
mean no state has what we have right
here today that and so you have some
opportuni it doesn't mean we can't rest
on that but we still a lot of work to do
but we we are in a good place um to help
support the industry going forward on
these new technologies and New
Opportunities looking at the
strategic planning goals
well so I think I think it's it's a very
it's a very good question um I think the
one thing we tried to do with the
Strategic plan is
to so we think of it in terms of
fouryear timeing right so um that's
always the context that we're we're
working in so whether it's setting the
stage for what comes beyond that um I
think is important and addressing any of
the issues I don't think we should we
should necessarily shy away for that um
we also just want to keep it I think
focused on what is the direct goals to
achieve you know in that foure
F I agree obiously we got to look at
what we can control and what we can we
can educate what the to focus on that
and how we need more information out
there and how we do that that's part of
the thing I was talk about earlier about
the legislators and decision makers and
getting eductive on the industry um is
very important I think has to focus on
that but we we have to really focus on
what we can control and
con
definitely hey um any any other comments
on this
plan than oh I was gonna say I have a
few sort of high level thoughts um if it
Mary yeah I don't need to cut you off
but I have to stick to
our so if you can send those in though
when we have the form um I would
appreciate it sorry just stick to our
rules so again April will through
through Ryan send out um the start of
kind of a a Google doc that we can have
some of these uh ideas start filtering
in we will look for
the summit um in August and potentially
the the other meeting in in Lynchburg um
to have some of these are organizations
participate um one thing I will ask and
I know April will reiterate
this we this is how it get but last time
um for the for the summit it will
probably be us or April calling our need
to identify some in your organization to
be the participant as opposed to us
personally just because of the
um you know meeting uh rules for for the
authority so just keep in mind start
maybe identifying who that that
participant might be now so it's when
that indication
do is there a date for that
Summit not yet
okay um so the next thing is um you all
have a copy of the meeting minutes from
this meeting if we can go ahead and and
take a look at those we'll take a few
minutes if you have any comments um
changes that that we miss um we can
address those and then
does anybody have any changes or
comments
so I I I note and I do remember this
discussion during that meeting that
there was a specific motion delegating
be met to produce this strategic report
and strateg plan and then bring it to us
for approval so obviously we all need to
be involved in that but it is more of a
product produced by by REM and brought
to the authority foros to a document
written by the
that's correct and the reason for that
is because you all voted last time I had
be here because I'm able to put that
time and effort to um be to
devel that
so yeah and that's the if you see in the
minutes that's the board bullet down
um so we will again we will look at it
from a your standpoint um and if we
usually vote on attaching a letter of
support or something like that we that
the any other comments
this I have a motion to
approve
great um so so this is for for those
that are um new to the meeting this is
opportunity if there are any
announcements from Members also usually
provide um I try to provide some updates
on um various activities within the
nuclear industry although anybody who
follows the news those seem to come
every day um which is great there's a
lot of very positive news highlight a
little bit of it but also if there are
member updates so if there's anything um
specific to your company or organization
or coming conferences or meetings that
you want to highlight for the for the
members this is this is the time to do
it um so I wanted to touch on uh just
really two things uh one from kind of a
federal legislation standpoint um there
has continued to be a very strong um
votes of support within Congress for
nuclear issues um since our last meeting
that's highlighted really in two areas
one um was the approval of an extension
of the pricing indiction act for 40
years um so that happened back in
April
and it was interesting because there's
really no objection to extending the
nuclear Risk insurance um Provisions it
was really a matter of from how long and
interestingly enough the 40-year versus
the 20 year was what actually carried
today um so that's a strong recognition
of the the um
part in um the nuclear feature that that
was so that goes through I think it's
20
2056 no 2016 excuse me um I believe is
when PR is now extended here um then the
other thing that's happened um that this
just happened last week which was uh the
Senate finally approved um HR 1042 which
is a ban on the import of Russian uh
uranium um which is something that is
that passed uh the house earlier by
unanimous consent um which is uh no
objections um and has been just pass
through the through the Senate um in a
similar fashion it's important both from
a um geopolitical standpoint but it also
um opens up uh the $ 2.72 billion in
nuclear fuel cycle funding that was
approved in the fiscal year
2024 uh Appropriations skill so that
will go towards uh both conversion and
enrichments in the um lwr L Market um as
well as um increasing funding for uh
highly low Rich uranium uh programs at
the department vry which is provide feel
for against reactors so again a lot of
strong support in Congress
um I'll I know Mary and Scott see each
other up on the hill quite often they're
it's it's not a matter of really um yes
or no on nuclear it's a matter of what
they need to do and how they can fit it
into the current you know funding um and
just constraints of Congress in general
it being an election year there are not
a whole lot of legislative vehicles that
good across the line so it's always good
when nuclear can find something to move
on um and get
those um the other thing I wanted to
highlight because I think it's really
interesting through our
conversation uh that we were having
earlier was if if you havn't seen um
Google Microsoft and new made an
announcement a little over a month ago
now I guess a month and a half ago um
that they were actually U coming
together to aggregate their demand to
try to drive
um kind of first
mover uh Advanced Clean Energy projects
including nuclear um and if you look at
the characteristics they're looking for
um nuclear really checks all of their
boxes um and so it's really kind of a
private consortion trying to use the
their need for both clean generation but
also clean and firm generation to drive
investment hopefully help with some of
the risk mitigation
um that that Eric was talking about for
those those first of kind projects um so
if you haven't seen that announcement
they run I think the RFI has already
closed for that um they've got a very
aggressive timeline but it's very just
Google Microsoft Google and new core and
you'll find
out um and I two but one more um Friday
was uh Dr Katie Huff's last day at the
um I don't know I'm not sure if
everybody saw this she's going back to
the University of Illinois um where she
where she came from but um I did want to
take a moment I think she's done a ton
for uh the department um and I know
she's she spoken with this group um um
during her tenure has participated in
multiple kind of vneck um and Virginia
uh events so I just wanted to kind of
recognize the contributions that she
made um before for this group because I
think she did she did a phenomenal job
um and after three years she well
deserved her return back to Illinois and
hopefully that'll be the site of one of
the first resarch micro reactors F
anyway um with that I will open it up if
there any other updates from Members um
specific to their organizations that
they wanted to mention
um just to add one thing on theed side
Senator Warner and Senator Rich they um
put they're developing
a reactor Pockets that they just
established so it's something to watch
for Senator take is
really good St
for thank you um I actually talked with
uh Senator Warner staff about having
once they get that up and running was
just announced a couple weeks ago so
once that's fully up and running having
someone come and just uh brief
organization on what all what all
they're
doing
others I would just say from an industry
side on the
um what she do she's been working with
CNS working Clos
say so were well prepared for
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especially one of things see behind the
scenes is uh the industry working with
withed including
okay um so you should have seen uh do
the HS from Ryan for at believe both the
Q3 and Q4 meetings um so if you haven't
filled that out already maybe we can
send both of them out again just so we
so we have that but please fill those
out so we can get those on the on the
calendar that space is
reserved there any other comments I
will not
there so with that um I will open it up
for public comment if you is there
anyone if you're on the the phone or on
the excuse me the virtual and would like
to make comment can you please raise
your hand um
otherwise hello my name is Erica gray
come to these meetings for years off
attending NC meetings you're aware of a
lot of things that are going on as a
citizen has out a SC
sh um i' also mention that during the
general
assembly obviously um LGE gr good by
going out and trying to educate a lot of
the new people there um but I think that
was Miss was not really talking about
the the not just the pros but the cons
moving forward with one Mo
gr on this group is stated in previous
meetings that it want Jen to be the
ground you know testing ground for small
module
it's also stated that it wants to open
or resend our
B and it's also stated another time it
has a has a stated in a potential
recycling of the nation's new high was
Virginia possibly in Southwest
Virginia the public at large has
noing what actually being and ask for us
to pay for with our taxes taking the
risk and Etc and so I just think that
the true story should be the prosan of
cons and I don't see that in the media
and I didn't see it at the general
assembly and besides an opposing uh
National survey and study that was done
it told us about the risk about Ming
Virginia particular because we have had
for to rain contamination would be real
and Virginia came out in force opposing
Opening Our B few years
well um personally I know that Domin has
the high burn up pest project um that's
going on in nor um to my acknowledgement
I I don't believe they've actually even
gotten to the point of seeing how that
high bur fuel is doing in the Panic
testing it might not be opened until
2027 and I still haven't heard that
they' built a facility to even open it
and check it um there are lots of
technical data gaps when it comes to
dealing with nuclear fuel what we have
here in begin already I there is no real
solution in nule
waste this industry wants to focus on
more new but we got a lot of issues
going on with what we have right now and
also I'm putting forward wanting to go
forward with Life Extensions and I just
20 years for 40 years on our R run them
up to 80 years these r were never
designed officially designed to run that
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long reactor vessel EMB Britt is real I
don't even know if we have little
samples in the reactors anymore think we
run out I was told that we can make new
ones I mean there's a lot of
unknown so I'm concerned that we're so
focused on the new that I'm not really
sure how much we're going to be doing
people what we have going
safe and uh because there's miles and
miles of underground piping electrical
wiring Etc so we'll see because
obviously we're going through the
motions right now North it's it's really
one of those things where they want to
go on a generic basis for Renewal um
this is Virginia s Zone and it's PLS
it's both reactors were knocked offline
from our a earthquake in 2011 6 months
after Fukushima they should really have
a and think what are we really doing up
there and how can we secure what we have
that waste is going to sit there for a
long
time so
um the other issue that we don't even
know how much virgin are going to be be
paying for these renewals as well um and
how much refurbishing PL I haven't seen
any numbers any there and I'm
looking um just like with the our NRC
inspector Reg PR that pleaded G for
falsifying safety um reports back in
2020 um having seen exactly the ended up
happening with him it seems like the
media doesn't Lear report on a lot of
the issues that for me would be
important as it goes for using the word
nuclear clean energy it's not emissions
free we already know this front
end mailing processing enrichment making
the rods ET set to the backing of
forever storage canister I mean has
anyone come out with the the cost and
the emissions of doing all that and how
do you how do you cost do a cost factor
or emission Factor on for stor I'm not
really sure how that's done and so um
the reality is through Renewables you
know don't give us the risk that nuclear
gives us it doesn't get give us the
waste it's sted for thousands of years
and so you know I think in itself it's
it's really not a renewable energy so I
don't know how it's getting mixed up
with clean
energy so I really think that this uh
industry wants this new it it opens the
whole pan going for new canisters it's
like a whole new anim and itself itself
where does it stop because newc industry
from its Inception it said that we're
going to find some solution to the waste
I was over 40 years ago still no
solution and I sure hope that this this
group here is not going to be promoting
uranium I Virginia it' be disastrous for
our water and and for the public at
large so I've always said over and over
we need to what we have through now and
since we have no solution for what we
have now why why are we be with that's
even more risky because there's the
there's a lot of unknowns in that too so
I'm just saying that the public should
be told both the pros and the moving but
promoter so I don't think the other part
of that's
going thank
you do we have any other comments
anybody on the
phone okay
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um I just want to clarify to Erica I
really I always appreciate your feedback
of this meting I just want to clarify
one
thing
SP St hasor on that when we expect that
more
right there's no more public comments we
will close the meeting for today thank
you everyone