ML18353A459
| ML18353A459 | |
| 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: ML18353A459 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Ned Flaherty <Ned_Flaherty@msn.com>
Sent:
Monday, November 19, 2018 1:32 PM 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,
Reject the Proposal to consolidate irradiated fuel because it is illegal, and not allowed under federal law until there is a permanent repository operating.
If NRC proceeds, the application must be published in Spanish for regional residents.
No public meetings are planned, so they need to be held in communities and along routes, followed by a 180-day comment period.
Include in the Environmental Impact Statement scope, technical, social, geographic, cultural and political international impacts.
SYNERGY ---
WCS already has hazardous, radioactive, and mixed waste; it keeps bringing in more; and there is a uranium enrichment facility next door. Therefore, the EIS must evaluate the effects of multiple hazards, and the impacts of accidents, releases, and explosions from neighbors.
EARTHQUAKES ---
The area may be seismically active, and there are large amounts of fracking and other extraction nearby and/or underneath.
WEATHER / CLIMATE ---
The proposed site in Andrews County, TX is subject to severe weather and climatic conditions that could endanger nuclear waste containers. Extreme temperatures, wind/sand storms, wildfires, lightning strikes/storms, floods, and tornadoes can all impact the site.
WATER PROXIMITY ---
WCS wants to release radioactive, hazardous water to the New Mexico side of its property, which has public water sources and nearby major aquifers.
DELIBERATE SABOTAGE en route to and at the proposed site must be considered, including potential drone attacks.
STORAGE CONTAINER SYSTEMS ---
2 WCS could store irradiated fuel far longer than the expected life of the dry cask storage containers. NRC must consider the industry's present inability to re-containerize nuclear waste when casks fail, the absence of a re-containerization facility at the proposed WCS site, and the amount and source of funding.
ENVIROMENTAL / ECONOMIC JUSTICE ---
The proposed area has valuable industries and interests that the site threatens. Even the local hazardous / extractive industries 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 none were physically tested (despite dump-promoters' misuse of 40 year-old crash-test videos on totally different casks). The storage containers cannot be monitored for defects, inspected, repaired, or replaced, and NRC admits that such technology for that doesn't exist. Tell the NRC tto 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.
Sincerely, Mr. Ned Flaherty 644 Hyde Park Ave Apt 2R Boston, MA 02131 (617) 574-8808
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