ML18102A039
| ML18102A039 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 04/05/2018 |
| From: | Ratcliff P - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch |
| References | |
| 83FR13802 00002, NRC-2018-0052 | |
| Download: ML18102A039 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION Docket: NRC-2018-0052 Page 1 of 1 As of: 4/6/18 7:24 AM Received: April 05, 2018 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lk2-92fa-6kgi Comments Due:*May 29, 2018 Submission Type: Web Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Comment On: NRC-2018-0052-0001 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Document: NRC-2018-0052-DRAFT-0002 Comment on FR Doc# 2018-06398 Name: Philip Ratcliff Address:
4665 Tragen Ct. SE Salem, OR, 97302 Email: skazz999W@hotmail.com Submitter Inforination General Comment i3,=e,3 r~
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(p The environmental risks posed by irradiated fuel are extreme: As observed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, it has "the capacity to outlast human civilization as we know it and the potential to devastate public health and the environment." Nuclear Energy Inst., Inc. v. Envtl. Prot. Agency, 373 F.3d 1251 (D.C. Cir. 2004).If irradiated fuel is dispersed into the environment, its radionuclides are sufficiently toxic to cause irreparable
- contamination of large areas of land and entire river and lake systems and coastal ecosystems.
The risk of nuclear weapons proliferation posed by irradiated fuel is also significant. Each metric ton of spent fuel typically contains more than one*Nagasaki-bomb equivalent of plutonium and, as of 2016, well over 70,000 metric tons had already be been created in the United States by the commercial nuclear power reactors. Spent fuel, storage and/or disposal may pose a risk of theft if it is stored or disposed ofin a manner that would allow access in a few hundred years, when the fission product radiation barrier would have declined to low levels...
Irradiated fuel poses hazards for periods of time far longer than human history and must be managed in a way that minimizes its environmental, health, and security risks to the extent possible. Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are intimately connected, not least in the issue of nuclear spent fuel and its management.
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