ML18324A772
| ML18324A772 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 11/19/2018 |
| From: | Patterson C - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 00117, NRC-2016-0231 | |
| Download: ML18324A772 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 11/20/18 10:52 AM Received: November 19, 2018 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. 1k2-96nd-79tu Comments Due: November 19, 2018 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2016-0231 Waste Control Specialists LLC's Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility Project Comment On: NRC-2016-0231-0220 Interim Storage Partners LLCs Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Document: NRC-2016-0231-DRAFT-0297 Comment on FR Doc # 2018-22810 Submitter Information Name: Cynthia Patterson Address:
Atlanta, GA, General Comment Please accept these comments regarding Docket ID NRC-2016-0231.
Radioactive waste emits hazardous radiation for ten half-lives. Radioactive isotopes of iodine have a half-life of 16 million years; plutonium 24,000 years; cesium 2.3 million years.
Interim Storage Partners proposes a pilot interim high-level waste repository stroing 40,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste in Andrews, Texas. My fear is this radioactive dumping site will become a dangerous, open, permanent parking-lot radioactive dump.
Radio-active waste should not be transported twice. Deadly high-level radioactive waste from nuclear reactors around the country would travel by rail through our major cities and be dumped on Texas, with plans for a similar site in New Mexico. Transporting the waste will require thousands of rail shipments, occurring over 20 years. Each shipment at risk for accidents, sabotage and terrorism.
Until a long-term, geological, safe repository, is complete, utilities are responsible for their own interim storage problems, including financial investments and liability for accidents.
The NRC should halt review of the WCS license application for Consolidated Interim Storage in Texas, and halt the review of the Holtec project proposed for New Mexico. Both licenses should be denied.
Page 1 of 1 11/20/2018 https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=09000064838eaf2c&format=xml&showorig=false SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD= Antoinette Walker-Smith, James Park, Cinthya Cuevas Roman, Jenny Weil COMMENT (117)
PUBLICATION DATE:
9/4/2018 CITATION 83 FR 44922