ML18353A263
| ML18353A263 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 11/19/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/FCSS |
| NRC/NMSS/FCSS | |
| References | |
| 83FR44922 | |
| Download: ML18353A263 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Michael Brackney <michaelbrackney@gmail.com>
Sent:
Monday, November 19, 2018 11:54 AM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] NRC Docket 72-1050 NRC 2016-0231 NRC - WCS EIS 2018 RE: NRC Docket 72-1050 NRC 2016-0231
Dear,
NRC:
Please reject the proposed Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS) nuclear waste dump in Andrews County, TX primarily because it's illegal: under federal law it's not allowed until there's an operating permanent repository.
Nevertheless, if you're inclined to proceed with this proposal: 1) please extend the time for public comment by 180 days; 2) please publish the application in Spanish so all the residents in the region can review it; 3) please hold public meetings -- none are now planned -- in communities along all the potential routes; and 4) please include the scope and all the immediate, long-term, and potential effects of the proposed nuclear waste dump -- technical, geographic, political, social, and cultural -- national and international as well as local -- including the following:
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS --
Waste Control Specialists (WCS) already has hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste, and continues to bring in more to the site proposed for high level waste, and there is a uranium enrichment facility next door, so the EIS must evaluate the effects of multiple hazards and impacts of accidents, releases, and 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, TX is subject to severe weather and climatic conditions that could endanger nuclear waste containers. Extreme temperatures, drought, wind and sand storms, tornadoes, wildfires, lightning strikes and rain storms, and floods, all can 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--
2 The period of storage of irradiated fuel at WCS could exceed the expected life of the dry cask containers in which it is stored, so 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 must be considered.
ENVIRONMENTAL 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. Indeed, according to NRC staff the technology this is in the future, so obviously shipments 10s of 1000s of the most deadly radioactive waste in super-heavy, inadequate containers over the nation's railroad tracks, roads and bridges must not be allowed.
TIA, hoping that you will consider of all of these life-and-death matters with such great care that you will see that you must rescind this proposal, Michael Brackney San Diego, CA Sincerely, Mr. Michael Brackney 3940 Park Blvd #410 San Diego, CA 92103 (619) 296-2350
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