ML18338A514
| ML18338A514 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 11/01/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
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| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18338A514 (2) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Norda Gromoll <gromoll@nnex.net>
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Thursday, November 1, 2018 6:43 PM To:
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[External_Sender] DANGEROUS Greetings, Please do not ship nuclear fuel waste.
TOO DANGEROUS!
Even routine or incident-free shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel carry health risks to workers and innocent passers by.
This is because it would take so much radiation shielding to completely hold in the gamma radiation, being emitted by the highly radioactive waste, that the shipments would be too heavy to move economically. So NRC has compromised, and allows for or permits a certain amount of hazardous gamma radiation to stream out of the shipping container.
NRCs regulations allow for up to 10 millirem per hour (mR/hr) of gamma radiation to be emitted, about six feet (two meters) away from a shipping casks exterior surface. Thats about one to two chest X-rays worth of gamma radiation, per hour of exposure.
Since the radiation dissipates with the square root of the distance, this means that NRCs regulations allow for up to 200 mR/hr, at the surface of the casks exterior. Thats 20 to 40 chest X-rays worth of gamma radiation, per hour, which NRC allows to stream out, right at the casks surface.
NRC has done a cost-benefit analysis - the cost, to human health; the benefit, to the nuclear power industrys bottom line
- and deemed these exposure levels acceptable or permissible. (Permissible or acceptable should never be confused with safe or harmless - exposures to 200 mR/hr, or even 10 mR/hr, still carry health risks. After all, any level of radiation, no matter how small, has long been confirmed to cause cancer. For more information, see:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325141005/http://www.nirs.org/press/06-30-2005/1)
The humans actually harmed by these exposures to hazardous radioactivity - related to the industrys NRC-approved, unnecessary shipments, for example - might beg to differ! But of course, any negative health impacts associated with irradiated nuclear fuel shipments will not be closely tracked (or tracked at all) by NRC, or any other government agency for that matter. NRC and industry almost always downplay the health risks, and would almost certainly deny any connection between such exposures and negative health outcomes.
Sincerely, Norda Gromoll
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