ML18282A632
| ML18282A632 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/01/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18282A632 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Ned Flaherty <Ned_Flaherty@msn.com>
Sent:
Monday, October 1, 2018 11:02 AM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] NRC Docket 72-1050 NRC 2016-0231 Reject the Proposal to consolidate irradiated fuel because it is illegal, and banned by federal law until there is a permanent repository in operation.
This proposal must be published in Spanish so all residents can review it.
Public meetings must be held near all affected communities and routes.
Accept public comments for at least 180 days.
The EIS scope must include technical, social, geographic, cultural, and political international impacts.
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS
- WCS already has hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste, and keeps adding more, and there is a uranium enrichment facility next door. The EIS must evaluate multiple hazards and impacts of accidents, releases, explosions from its neighbors.
- The area may be seismically active, and there is much fracking and other extraction near the site, possibly even beneath the site!
SEVERE WEATHER and CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
- The Andrews, County TX proposed site suffers severe weather and climatic conditions that can endanger nuclear waste containers: extreme temperatures, wind / sand storms, wildfires, lightning strikes / storms, floods, and tornadoes.
PROXIMITY TO WATER
- WCS seeks to release radioactive and hazardous water to the NM side of its property. There is water at the site, and there are nearby major aquifer formations.
ACTS OF MALICE and OTHER DELIBERATE SABOTAGE near and at the proposed site must be considered, including potential drone attacks.
STORAGE CONTAINER SYSTEMS
- The period for storing irradiated fuel at WCS could exceed the expected life of the dry cask containers in which it is stored, so NRC must consider the industry's inability to re-containerize nuclear waste, the lack of a re-containerization facility, and how it would be funded.
ENVIROMENTAL and ECONOMIC JUSTICE
- The proposed area has valuable industries and interests that would be threatened. Even some of the existing hazardous and extractive industries oppose the dump. West Texans have experienced environmental racism for decades, and People of Color keep getting disproportionately impacted by hazardous / toxic wastes.
TRANSPORT DANGERS
- None of todays certified waste containers are designed for real world transport conditions (temperatures, crash speeds, submersion in water) and none have been physically tested (40 year-old crash-test videos are irrelevant). The waste will stay dangerous beyond the useful life of the storage containers, which cannot be
2 monitored for cracks / leaks, inspected, repaired, or replaced. NRC staff admits it is imagining "future" technology that doesn't even exist. Tell NRC to prevent 10s of 1000s of shipments of the most deadly radioactive waste in super-heavy, inadequate containers, over the nation's railroad tracks, roads, and bridges.
Mr. Ned Flaherty 644 Hyde Park Ave Apt 2R Boston, MA 02131 (617) 574-8808
Federal Register Notice:
83FR44922 Comment Number:
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