ML18270A030
| ML18270A030 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 09/26/2018 |
| From: | Weehler C - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 00006, NRC-2016-0231 | |
| Download: ML18270A030 (2) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 9/27/18 8:11 AM Received: September 26, 2018 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. 1k2-95n5-joqh Comments Due: October 19, 2018 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2016-0231 Waste Control Specialists LLC's Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Project Comment On: NRC-2016-0231-0187 Interim Storage Partners LLCs Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Document: NRC-2016-0231-DRAFT-0186 Comment on FR Doc # 2018-19058 Submitter Information Name: Cynthia Weehler Address:
Santa Fe, TX, 87508 Email: cnthweehler@gmail.com General Comment Transporting nuclear waste along railways, interstates, and waterways is dangerous and unnecessary. It endangers all the citizens that the waste passes. Here are some of my concerns.
- 1. When an accident occurs, the property it happens on will be worthless for millennia. Accidents always occur, eventually, because humans aren't perfect. Worse, some humans intend to do harm.
- 2. Humans will be exposed to radioactivity because the transport vehicles release radioactivity for some distance from the contents. Imagine the danger to a pregnant woman carrying a fetus and stopped at a railroad crossing. Or children who live within this zone of "accepted" radioactive release because their house is near the tracks. The cumulative effects of this exposure is an unacceptable risk that the nuclear industry seems willing to take. I doubt if those children are willing to take it.
- 3. There is an acceptable alternative. HOSS storage at each site where the waste is generated is a comparatively safe and long lasting method until and if we ever figure out how to store this waste for the time period in which it is hazardous.
- 4. We should stop making this waste. Period. Quit allowing companies to try to come up with a "better way to do nuclear power." It has lost the financial, environmental, and energy battle to renewables.
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