ML19330B543
| ML19330B543 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 07/18/1980 |
| From: | Quigg C POLLUTION & ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, INC. |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0686, RTR-NUREG-686 16880, NUDOCS 8008050007 | |
| Download: ML19330B543 (1) | |
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DATE July 18, 1980 "Os Director, DivisLon of Licmsing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Octaission
'fashington, D.C. 20555 FPOM Catherine quigg, research director Pollutica &, Environmental Pro blems, Inc.
Box 3C9, Palatine, Illinoie 60067 RE:
Draft Ehvironmetal I@act statemaat related to Chedcal Decontamination at Droede. NURED-0686 1.
LVREG-C686 stat es that Dow Chedcal's proprietary slvet NS-1 will be uced for the deconta=ination precees.
COWENT!
The NRC and the nuclear industry should be obliged to disclo s the e
che=ical compo sition of NO-1 to the public. The public will have to bear the health tunima of potetial impacts from N?1 and la therefore entitled to this info r=ation. The protecticn of the public health and safety should :ppercede the proprietary rights j
of the Dow Chemical Cbc:pany.
2 In Appedix A, page 9, hWRED-0686 states: " Migration as ob served at the i
Cak Ridge cite would not occur at the 3eatty3 Nevada or Hanford, 7 aching +on A clid waste is to be dispo ed at the cc mercial sites. The sit e s.
s climate geology and hydrologic conditions eliminate the po esibility for flow to saturate soila and transport radiennelidee aa observed at Cak Ridge.a cintlENT: The NRC's stire pred ee of safe btuial of NS-1 contaminated wastes frota the Dresde cleanup is based on the suppo sition that Hanford and Beatty are arid lands where the potential for trangort of radionuclides is virtually non-existett. The NRC has not provide 1 the public with gecific factual data on the geehrdrology of the hanford and Beatty sites to back up its centations that these sites are safe for the burial of radioactive wastes conte _ining Ne-1 which, mo t likely, conteins EDTA a chelating agmt knew s
to goed the migration of radionuclides through the soil and ground-water.
The NRC thus obliges the citizen interested in the protection of public health and saf ety to take a giant leap of faith in accepting tho NRC's assessment of the stitability of the se sites. We refuse to take that leap and urgently request the NRC to provide mrrent scientific docummtaion on the geology and hydrology of theee sites and their past arperiscos with leaks, seepage and dgration. This
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investigation should be natde by independerrt hydrologid.s. and (0
geologi st s. The NRC has not made it s caee for the safe digo al
%h of these wastes. We await adequate info rmation upon which to base sound decisiona aa to the full environmetal igaete of the decontadnation of Dresden-l.
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