ML18235A682
| ML18235A682 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 07/29/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review |
| NRC/NMSS/DFCSE | |
| References | |
| 83FR13802 | |
| Download: ML18235A682 (4) | |
Text
1 Holtec-CISFEISCEm Resource From:
EULIA QUAN MISHIMA <counterpoints@earthlink.net>
Sent:
Sunday, July 29, 2018 2:37 AM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] COMMENT TO the NRC on Docket ID NRC-2018-0052: Holtec Internationals HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project
Dear Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff:
I join the growing number of people who do not support acceptance of Holtec International's Reject Holtec Internationals application for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for high level nuclear waste first because centralized or consolidated interim storage sites are NOT allowed under US federal laws to the extent the Department of Energy and US taxpayers are expected to own and transport the waste. It is an ILLEGAL DUMP because it will great irreversible harm to liveability in the location it would be built and the total ill effects in the area of the proposed dump will definitely spread to make nearby and surround territories harmful to the point where such will premanently change to become immediately a large parcel of formerly fine live supporting territory because it was orginally healthy and liveable for its natural small and large plants and the animals that have lived in the same territory historically.
Be informed that the permanen damage that will occur with construcon of this storage project which will not insure any more liveabilty for plant, animal and human beings.
For the reasons provided herein I ask with the growing numbers of people who have learned of the very negative results if the proposed reject is realized. Please do not rely on the Environmental Report done by Tetra Tech for Holtec.
This and any other similar proposal is in essence is definitely being propsed with the assisance of one or more FRAUDULENT CROOKED CONTRACTORS who should not be considered as qualified to perform an environmental analysis of the territory that has been selected as he best for this very harmful development.
Since 20 years ago Tetra Tech has been falsifying radiation monitoring data, deliberately spreading radioactive soil and waste to previously clean places on and offsite, using unqualified workers to supervise radioactive scanning and cleanup efforts and suppressing and firing whistleblowers at the Navys huge Hunters Point nuclear site in San Francisco, which is being converted to high-end housing. and such references is considered presently as accurate rather than false information according to the US Navy, EPA and California Health Department. Based on this track record, Tetra Tech would be unethical to accept as true and reliable the present reports that provide information about assessed environmental impacts of the proposed Holtec dump.
The Holtec site VIOLATES ENVIRONMENTAL and ECONOMIC JUSTICE. The proposed area has valuable industries including pecan, cattle ranches, dairy, and other local farming interests that would be greatly threatened by the proposed kinds of development.
Please carefully informed and become aware that some of the hazardous and extractive industries that are a big part of the economy oppose the dump via education and understand that New Mexico has suffered enough as a national sacrifice zone at the hands of the nuclear industry, including abandoned uranium mines, the Manhattan Project, Trinity
2 Test, plutonium contamination in the rivers downstream from Los Alamos, uranium enrichment, and hosting the nations transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Also it is one of the poorest states, and a has majority of minorities in the state of New Mexico-one that has experienced environmental racism for decades. Most of the inhabitants are People of Color. This category of human beings yet continue to be disproportionately impacted by hazardous and toxic wastes. (Samia Assed, Chair of the New Mexico Poor Peoples Campaign; see: www.nonuclearwaste.org. NRC should careully assess the multiple stresses on New Mexicans and definite failures to compensate them over the history of the atomic age for negavely aecing this home terriory that belongs them.
CASK DANGERS. i is apparent that none of todays certified waste containers are designed for real world transport conditions (temperatures, crash speeds, submersion in deep water) and have not been physically tested despite dump-promoters misuse of 40 year-old crash-test videos on totally different casks. In addition storage containers cannot be monitored for potential cracks and leaks, inspected, repaired or replaced even though the powsers that be know that most of what will become waste if approval of the change is made it will be dangerous longer than they will endure if the proposed project is approved The technology is in the future according to NRC staff. There fore the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should include evaluation of moving 10s of 1000s of shipments of the most deadly radioactive waste in super-heavy, inadequate containers over deteriorating railroad tracks, roads and bridges and the resulting impacts from many thousands of shipments that will be needed if the project is approved. Consider that negative of damage to infrastructure and the harm to people that will be employes of the businesses and related communities and the many resources ha will be needed and received via a variey of shipping procedures.
HOTTER HIGH LEVEL WASTE. NRC should be included in complete reliable evaluation of high burn-up fuel which will be significant portion of the waste that would go to Holtec.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE IS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED: Assess and report on the reliability and capability of volunteer and distantly-located emergency response personnel upon which the site will rely continually and in timely schedule. Such should Include availability, training, equipping and notification of emergency responders all along the routes.
HARSH ENVIRONMENT. Consider, in more than a cursory dismissive way, the decades of high temperatures, salty dry climate, potential flash floods, lightning, burrowing animals, sand, blocked vents, wind, rain, fire on the casks and waste.
Assume increased earthquake risks and other impacts from fracking (which is not prohibited) near and under the site!
CONSOLIDATED INTERIM STORAGE (CIS) COULD BECOME PERMANENT AND SAFE. NRC must analyze the consequences of the waste remaining indefinitely at the sitenever to be moved to another location. Holtec proposes to consolidate up to 173,600 metric tons of high-level waste from all US nuclear power reactors to New Mexico, near the famous Carlsbad Caverns, to temporarily store for 40-120 years. (It could take 40+ years to move it there!) The waste would allegedly be moved again but if no permanent site is found or money to move it again never appears, it could stay forever, despite not being designed for permanent isolation.
REPROCESSING + PROLIFERATION DANGER. NRC, analyze the possibility of the waste being reprocessed at the site, since consolidating waste is the first step to dangerous reprocessing to extract plutonium, increasing nuclear weapons proliferation, massive water use and intense, irreversible environmental contamination. Reprocessing was proposed at this same site before and must be addressed in the EIS. Presently the reliable facts do not indicate that the proposed facility will be one that will bene"t the environment nor the people who will be living in or near the new facility tha the for profit businesses who continue to make some gain and some approval of such a life threatening take over of territories proposed for a solely money making project to replace land that connues is ye to be presently a life supporng and healthy naturally as old territory tha has be used by human beings who have allowed the land since a housand years ago to remain life supporting and healthy each day in its present kind of life supporting use for people and animals that are decendens of the very historically early occupants of the land that is now being aggressivly sought
3 by solely for profit oriented giant business. Their are crminal in essence. Please do not approve this business proposal for the sole purpose of making huge moneary pro"ts at the expense of permanent and unhealthy destrucon to another parcel fo the Earth which has been a home since very much ancient times when money in the form of U.S.
dollars was not a product that promoted liveability and long life for plants, animals and human beings whose prime value system was coins and paper money.
Thank you for your attention. I hope you will are sincere and place quality of life ahead of big bucks.
I care very much for the well being of human life-even your life.
Thank you for your attention.
Eulia Quan Mishima Ms. EULIA QUAN MISHIMA 840 N. W. SIXTH ST GRESHAM, OR 97030 503-666-1932
Federal Register Notice:
83FR13802 Comment Number:
5132 Mail Envelope Properties (2051858631.3114.1532846212961.JavaMail.tomcat)
Subject:
[External_Sender] COMMENT TO the NRC on Docket ID NRC-2018-0052:
Holtec Internationals HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Sent Date:
7/29/2018 2:36:52 AM Received Date:
7/29/2018 2:36:55 AM From:
EULIA QUAN MISHIMA Created By:
counterpoints@earthlink.net Recipients:
Post Office:
vweb104 Files Size Date & Time MESSAGE 8717 7/29/2018 2:36:55 AM Options Priority:
Standard Return Notification:
No Reply Requested:
No Sensitivity:
Normal Expiration Date:
Recipients Received: