ML12319A468

Comment (3) of Dinda Evans Opposing Disposal of Nuclear Waste on Reactor Sites

ML12319A468
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	11/09/2012
From:	Evans D - No Known Affiliation
To:	Carol Gallagher Division of Administrative Services
References
77FR65137 00003, NRC-2012-0246
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///57'Gallagher, Carol From: Dinda Evans [dindamcp4@yahoo.com]

Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 11:58 PM To: Gallagher, Carol

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Docket ID NRC-2012-0246 us has old leaking sites of radioactive waste. We need to be more responsible than in the past On June 8, 2012, Riverkeeper and our allies won a landmark U.S. Court of Appeals decision nullifying the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's "Waste Confidence Rule," which has allowed each U.S. nuclear reactor to store highly radioactive nuclear waste on site. The now-invalidated rule presumed that waste stored at reactors would go to a national nuclear waste dump someday and that the storage of spent fuel at individual reactors is temporary and causes "no significant environmental impact." Because of our landmark court victory, there is no longer any legal basis for plants like Indian Point to avoid studying the environmental impacts of long-term nuclear waste storage in fuel pools or dry storage. At Indian Point, spent fuel has leaked carcinogenic nuclear waste into groundwater and the Hudson River, and its unfortified storage structure has been considered as a target of terrorists.

The Court's decision forces the NRC to address the risks of nuclear waste disposal before any U.S. nuclear plant, including Indian Point, may be licensed or re-licensed.

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