ML18354B379
| ML18354B379 | |
| 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: ML18354B379 (3) | |
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1 WCS_CISFEISCEm Resource From:
ROSE GARDNER <NMLADY2000@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Monday, November 19, 2018 7:20 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, 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, cultural and political international impacts.
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 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
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. 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.
As a Nm resident in Eunice NM I am very close to the site. I am concerned that additional nuclear waste of this type near my home will prove to be dangerous for me and my family I do not consent to this WCS - Orano license for storage of nuclear waste. I am concerned that the city of Eunice hasn't had a public meeting with this company. I don't believe that they have even discussed this with Eunice City Council. Where is the public specifically the local public to speak their opinion? All meetings I went to were not in Eunice NM. This is discrimination against my community who will be most impacted by this project. I suggest you add Eunice and other communities to the public meeting agendas. It appears very negative to leave the most important aspect of an application for a dangerous license to leave us the public out. I hope that you will determine there is environmental justice issue that must be addressed. My corner of NM is under siege by several nuclear waste companies that would just dump and let someone else(DOE) or the state take title to this waste. It would behoove the NRC to allow more time and fairly treat the parties that are against this license application.
I do not believe the oil industry will go willingly into having their agenda endangered. I believe that the relationships between these industries. Changes are happening around this area and the real people around here do not want it.
Sincerely, Ms. ROSE GARDNER BOX 514 1402 ave a EUNICE, NM 88231 (575) 390-9634
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