ML14323B022

Regcon, November 19-20, 2014: 03-Info-Session-2 Ronald Johnson - Tribal Perspective on Continued Storage

ML14323B022
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Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	11/19/2014
From:	Rachel Johnson Prairie Island Indian Community
To:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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TRIBAL PERSPECTIVE ON CONTINUED STORAGE November 19, 2014 Ronald Johnson Tribal Council President Prairie Island Indian Community

Prairie Island Indian Community - Background o Descendants of Mdewakanton Band of Eastern Dakota - Those who Were Born of the Waters Waters o Mdewakanton Dakota have lived on Prairie Island Island, Tinta Wita, Wita for generations due to its richness in aquatic and terrestrial resources o Approximately 3,200 acres tribal l d land 2

Location 3

4 ISFSI < 1 mile from PIICs PIIC s Lower Island reservation area and about 600 yards from the nearest homes.

Photo By: Mark Fredrickson 5

6 Continued Storage g formerly y known as Waste Confidence

. . . the quality or state of being certain . .

certain.

- or -

. . . of,of relating to, to or adept at swindling by false promises . . .

Source: Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed. 1993) at 241-242. 7

Seven Generations

• Spent Nuclear Fuel has already been stored on site far longer than originally promised.

• Indefinite on site spent fuel storage creates long-term issues affecting more than Seven Generations.

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The NRC cannot fulfill the D.C.

C Circuits mandate to analyze the impacts associated with long-term on site storage by assuming

term, there will be no long-term, on site storage.

storage

• On what basis can the NRC assume that casks will be reloaded every 100 years?

• On O whath t basis b i can theth NRC assume that institutional controls will exist in 100 years? In 200 years? 9

Will adequate q funding g be available in 100 years? In 200 years?

• The average price per cask at the PINGP ISFSI has increased by 734% in less than 25 years -

from $812,500 in 1990 to $5.96 million in 2013.

• Should the NRC assume that per cask costs will increase by this same percentage every 25 years?

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Photo By: Mark Fredrickson 11

Preserve Ancestral Homeland, Culture & Heritage g

Questions?

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