ML18235A200
| ML18235A200 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 07/28/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review |
| NRC/NMSS/DFCSE | |
| References | |
| 83FR13802 | |
| Download: ML18235A200 (2) | |
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1 Holtec-CISFEISCEm Resource From:
d.s kiefer <dsk11@cornell.edu>
Sent:
Saturday, July 28, 2018 2:39 PM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2018-0052; Holtec Internationals HI-STORE CIS Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel, Lea County, New Mexico I respectfully reject the Holtec Environmental Report (ER) proposal to bring up to 100,000 metric tons of spent fuel, high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors around the country to southeast New Mexico.
I oppose New Mexico becoming a national radioactive waste dumping ground. I do not support transporting many thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste through thousands of communities nationwide.
We need not risk this contamination of our lands, aquifers, air, or the health of plants, wildlife and livestock.
Without routes that are designated, the public cannot adequately comment on the impacts of this massive project.
This Holtec proposal Is contrary to current law, which only allows the U.S. Department of Energy to take title to commercial spent fuel following commencement of operation of a repository or at a DOE-owned and operated monitored retrievable storage facility.
The Environmental Report (ER) is inadequate and incomplete because it does not analyze the impacts of the spent fuel being left at the Holtec site indefinitely. Neither does the ER analyze the alternative of keeping the spent fuel casks in some form of hardened, on-site storage.
The ER inadequately discusses the transportation risks. It must include all transportation routes and the potential impacts of accidents or terrorism incidents on public health and safety along all the routes. It also needs to discuss how rail shipments from reactors without rail access would be accomplished and the risks and impacts of such shipments.
The ER does not analyze exactly how radioactive waste from a cracked and leaking canister would be handled, since there is no wet pool or hot cell at the site.
Although the ER gives a statement on recent seismic activity in the area, there is no analysis of what impacts many 3.0 -
4.0 fracking-induced earthquakes will have on the buried casks.
The impacts of global warming on climate in the region and the resulting impacts on casks and canisters, in relation to their ratings, must be considered.
Thank you for your consideration, d.s kiefer 14850
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