ML18290A093
| ML18290A093 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/11/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18290A093 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Barry LeBeau <blebeau123@yahoo.com>
Sent:
Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:56 PM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket No. 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231 Waste Control Specialists LLCs
/ ISPs Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Project
Dear Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Im strongly urging that you reject the proposal by Waste Control Specialists and its partner to import up to 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors around the country and store it in Andrews County for 40 years or longer. Exposure to any of this dangerous waste can lead to cancers, genetic damage, birth defects as well as death.
Homeowners insurance doesnt cover radioactive contamination. Importing these high-level radioactive waste would create future risks to public health, safety and financial well-being.
The NRC has not even held a single public meeting on the revised application. The NRC held only one meeting in Texas on the original application, and that was in Andrews, which was hundreds of miles from major cities that would be impacted by rail transport of radioactive waste. Resolutions opposing the radioactive waste plans and transport were passed by Dallas, Bexar, Nueces and Midland counties and the cities of San Antonio and Denton, but the public has not been given an opportunity to speak out in NRC public hearings.
Please extend public intervention and public comment deadlines by at least 180 days to allow for public input, and to host public meetings in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Midland and Andrews - and all other locations that would be impacted by this proposal.
The WCS Environmental Report is woefully inadequate. It should be expanded to clearly identify:
- Transportation routes that would be used across the country; *Risks to groundwater and the nearby Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states, providing drinking water and water for agriculture, ranching and wildlife; *The impacts of temperature extremes, wildfires, flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes, lightning and shifting ground (as reported in recent Southern Methodist University studies) on radioactive waste casks and canisters; *The environmental injustice of dumping high-level radioactive waste on the largely Hispanic West Texas region; and *The adequacy of financial assurances, the stability of J.F. Lehman, the new WCS owner, and the ties of partner Orano (which has a 51 percent project share) to the French government.
Improved monitoring, security and worker protections are not only needed but required, and the emergency plan should include actions to be taken in the event of an accident, not just a notification structure. It appears there are no viable plans for action should an emergency arise.
Sending radioactive waste to this site would risk future public health and security for residents living near the site and along its transportation routes. An inadequate permanent disposal site could be created since its likely that the waste will never get moved to a permanent repository. This waste will be dangerous for at least a million years. Storing it for decades above ground in extreme climate conditions is too risky. In the interest of our public health and safety, this license absolutely should be denied.
2 Thank you for your consideration of my concerns. Im hopeful you will reconsider moving radioactive wastes into texas an further prevent a future potentially catastrophic release of radiation into the public domain.
Sincerely, Barry LeBeau 02893
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