ML18323A767
| ML18323A767 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/17/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18323A767 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Dennis Nelson <dennis_nelson@att.net>
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:51 AM To:
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[External_Sender] NRC Docket 72-1050 NRC 2016-0231 Reject the Proposal to consolidate irradiated fuel because it is illegal, not allowed under federal law until there is a permanent repository operating. If NRC proceeds, the application should be published in Spanish so residents in the region can review it.
Please hold public meetings--none are now planned--Hold them in communities and along all the potential routes especially in Texas. Extend the time for commenting 180 days.
Include in the Environmental Impact Statement scope, technical, social, geographic, cultural and political international impacts.
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS --
WCS already has hazardous, radioactive and mixed waste and continues to bring in more to the site proposed for high level waste. There is a uranium enrichment facility next door. The EIS must evaluate the effects of multiple hazards and impacts of accidents, releases, explosions from its neighbors EARTHQUAKES--
The area is potentially seismically active and there are large amounts of fracking and other extraction in proximity to the site, possibly even beneath the site!
SEVERE WEATHER and CLIMATIC CONDITIONS The site of the proposed CIS facility in Andrews County, Texas is subject to severe weather and climatic conditions that could endanger nuclear waste containers. Extreme temperatures, wind and sand storms, wildfires, lightning strikes and storms, floods, and tornadoes can all impact the site.
PROXIMITY TO WATER--
WCS is seeking a permit to release radioactive and hazardous water to the New Mexico side of its property. There is water at the site and there are nearby major aquifer formations.
ACTS OF MALICE and OTHER DELIBERATE SABOTAGE en route to and at the proposed site must be considered, including potential drone attacks.
STORAGE CONTAINER SYSTEMS The period of storage of irradiated fuel at WCS could exceed the expected life of the dry cask containers in which it is stored. NRC must consider the industry's present inability to re-containerize nuclear waste when casks fail, the absence of a facility at the proposed WCS site to perform such operations, and the amount and source of funds to pay for it.
ENVIROMENTAL and ECONOMIC JUSTICE--
The proposed area has valuable industries and interests that would be threatened by the site. Even some of the hazardous and extractive industries that are a big part of the economy oppose the dump. West Texans have
2 experienced environmental racism for decades. People of Color continue to be disproportionately impacted by hazardous and toxic wastes.
TRANSPORT DANGERS--
None of todays certified waste containers are designed for real world transport conditions (temperatures, crash speeds, submersion in water) and have not been physically tested despite dump-promoters' misuse of 40 year-old crash-test videos on totally different casks. The storage containers cannot be monitored for potential cracks and leaks, inspected, repaired or replaced even though we know the waste will be dangerous longer than they will last. The technology is in the future according to NRC staff. Tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (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.
DANGERS INHERENT IN NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION AND ITS WASTE-- Electric power generation using a nuclear chain reaction in Uranium-235 to produce heat to boil water is simply the most idiotic process imaginable to generate electricity, especially when there are so many other ways of producing power that are much cheaper, less dangerous and more environmentally friendly, such as wind and solar. Uranium is one of the rarest elements on the planet and only 0.7% of that is fissionable. It is stupid to use up this finite planetary resource simply to boil water. Uranium power generation also produces tons of radioactive waste which is dangerous for thousands of years. Experience has shown that nuclear reactors are simply uncontrollable and nuclear waste simply cannot be contained.
The adverse health effects of radionuclides loose in the environment have been downplayed and underestimated. There is simply no safe level of radiation and, unlike chemical toxins, radioactive toxins cannot be diluted to a safe level. Even a single nuclear disintegration has enough energy to kill or mutate a cell or cells and cause a cancer.
Simply storing nuclear waste on a WCS parking lot, somewhere in the desert, and repeatedly transporting radioactive materials along our transportation corridors, as though it were ordinary trash, does not protect the public from the dangers posed by the nuclear industry. We must re-think our electrical generation strategies and give up this insane flirtation with atomic power if we are to survive as a human species.
Dennis Nelson, Ph.D.
SERV Ph.D. Dennis Nelson 10952 Decatur Road 10952 Decatur Road, San Diego San Diego, CA 92126 858 610 6736
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