ML18323A953
| ML18323A953 | |
| 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: ML18323A953 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
susan michetti <sunightrising@gmail.com>
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:30 PM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
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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 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, adverse health effects to workers and residents, cultural, environmental, economic justice, scientific,anthropological, and political international impacts.
THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF IONIZING RADIATION SHOWS DAMAGE TO CELL MEMBRANES AT ANY DOSE. THERE IS NO THRESHOLD LEVEL BELOW WHICH SUCH EXPOSURE IS SAFE AND WITHOUT ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS, PARTICULARLY TO CELLULAR MEMBRANES. WHEN CELL MEMBRANES BECOME DYSFUNCTIONAL, THEY BECOME DYSFUNCTIONAL TO THE LINEAR EXTENT OF THE IONIZING RADIATION IN A LINEAR DOSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIP. THIS IS THE HIGHEST SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE PROVING ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. THE HIGHER THE EXPOSURE, THE INCREASED DAMAGE TO CELL MEMBRANES AND MORE AS THE EXPOSURE INCREASES. ANYONE WHO CLAIMS THAT LOW DOSES ARE SAFE AND DO NOT HARM ANYBODY HAS NOT READ THE SCIENCE OR DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE RIGOROUS STANDARDS OF SCIENCE WHEN THEY ARE PRESENTED AND KNOWN FROM THE TIME OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI A-BOMBS DROPPED ON JAPANESE PEOPLE. IF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN AN INDIVIDUAL IS ALREADY ACTIVATED PRIOR TO EXPOSURE, THE ABILITY OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS WEAKENED IN ITS ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO FULLY REPAIR THE CELLULAR MEMBRANE DAMAGE FROM VERY LOW LEVEL TEMPORARY EXPOSURE, SUCH AS MEDICAL X-RAYS, AND DAMAGE ACCUMULATES AND MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO BE REPAIRED. DAMAGE AT THE MEMBRANE LEVEL ALLOWS BUILDUP OF WASTE INSIDE THE CELL AND PREVENTS NUTRITION FROM ENTERING THE CELL TO KEEP THE CELL FUNCTIONING PROPERLY, AND AS THE WASTE BUILDS UP IT MAY DAMAGE THE DNA DEEP IN THE NUCLEUS OF THE CELL, IF THE RADIATION ITSELF DIDN'T DAMAGE THE DNA. DAMAGE TO THE DNA IS CALLED GENE MUTATIONS, AND PARTICULAR COMMON GENE MUTATIONS FROM RADIATION EXPOSURE OR WASTE BUILDUP EVENTUALLY LEAD TO TO CANCER, WHICH OVERALL CONTINUES TO HAVE A BAD TRACK RECORD IN LONG TERM SURVIVAL, UNLESS THE MUTATION IS INHERITED. THOSE WHO DO NOT SUFFICIENTLY GIVE PROPER WEIGHT TO ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS ARE ENDANGERING THE SURVIVAL OF THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY ITSELF.
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
2 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 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.
Ms. susan michetti 605 shiela st mt horeb, WI 53572 6083343515
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