Palisades could meltdown before 2017, whether due to reactor pressure vessel (RPV) embrittlement, or any of many other causes, from a long list of major safety risks. We need to shut it down before it melts down, long before 2017. We can't afford -- or allow -- 4 more years of radioactive Russian roulette at Palisades. Also, if there is any way they could get away with it, NRC could simply weaken the embrittlement safety standards yet again, as they have so many times in the past, in order to allow Palisades to keep operating anyway, despite all the risks. Not only does Viktoria Mytling hint at it in this article, former NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko did so as well, when we met with him on 5/25/12 in South Haven after he toured the problem-plagued Palisades plant. He hinted that the computer models could simply be tweaked yet again, allowing Palisades to keep running past the current 2017 safety standard violation date. Note that NRC used to say, in 2005, that Palisades would violate Pressurized Thermal Shock regulations by 2014. Then they weakened the regulations, et voilą, Palisades' reactor pressure vessel was good to go not till 2014, but till 2017. As AP reported in June 2011, NRC weakens safety standards to enable old reactors to keep operating. Pressurized thermal shock regulations were listed as the top example. Palisades is the worst embrittled reactor pressure vessel in the US, we got NRC to admit publicly on 2/29/12. Citizens Nuclear Information Center-Tokyo warned, in a May/June 2012 newsletter article, that embrittlement of reactor pressure vessels in Japan was much worse than even they had predicted. Michael Keegan of Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes reported in 1993 that Palisades had first violated NRC embrittlement safety regulations in 1981, 10 short years into operations. Its continued operations, for the past 32 years (1981-2013) have been accommodated by NRC weakening its safety regulations, over and over again.