ML18295A715
| ML18295A715 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/16/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18295A715 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
DAVID SMITH <info@sg.actionnetwork.org>
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:07 PM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] NRC-2016-0231; Docket # 72-1050 May Ma,
RE: Waste Control Specialists LLCs / ISPs Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Project
Dear May Ma and NRC,
Waste Control Specialists seek to import tons of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste to WCS existing site in Andrews County, Texas.
This dangerous waste can lead to cancers, genetic damage, birth defects, and even death.
Homeowners insurance doesnt cover radioactive contamination.
Importing such waste would create risks to public health, public safety, and everyone's financial well-being. This project and a similar proposal for nearby New Mexico should be halted immediately.
Under this plan, waste would travel through major Texas cities to reach either site.
Texans dont want dangerous high-level radioactive waste. They would say so, but there has not been a single public meeting on the revised application or even for the original application.
The NRC has held only one Texas meeting on the project, hundreds of miles from major cities that would be impacted by rail transport of radioactive waste.
(Five NRC meetings were held in New Mexico and twenty-four meetings were held for Yucca Mountain.)
2 This proposal would result in a large amount of transport of radioactive waste cross country and through cities, but the public is being given no opportunity to speak out.
Please extend intervention and public comment deadlines until at least 180 days after license application and scoping and intervention materials are made available in Spanish.
This extension is needed to allow for adequate public input.
Please host public meetings in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Midland and Andrews County and make all public notice and license application documents available in Spanish.
The WCS Report should clearly identify transportation routes that would be used across the country and thoroughly examine:
- Risks to groundwater and the Ogallala Aquifer.
- The impacts of temperature extremes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, lightning, and shifting ground on radioactive waste casks and canisters.
- The injustice of dumping high-level radioactive waste on the largely Hispanic West Texas region.
- The adequacy of financial assurances and the stability of the new WCS owner.
- Improved monitoring of security and worker safety.
- An emergency plan that includes actions to be taken, not just a notification structure.
Sending radioactive waste to Texas would risk contamination of Texas and all transport routes to Texas. Also, Texas could end up with an inadequate permanent disposal site whete this waste must remain isolated for a million years.
The NRC should halt review of the WCS application for Interim Storage in Texas and New Mexico. In the interest of our public health and safety both licenses should be denied.
DAVID SMITH dasmithaus@gmail.com AUSTIN, Texas 78703
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