ML19338E632
| ML19338E632 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project, Shoreham, 05000564, 07001327, 07001821, Barnwell, 07001432 |
| Issue date: | 09/26/1980 |
| From: | Champagne A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| FRN-45FR53933, RULE-RM-50-5-45FR53933 45FR53933-53, NUDOCS 8010030484 | |
| Download: ML19338E632 (1) | |
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Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20555 Attention: Chief, Docketing and Service Branch
Subject:
Reopening of GESMO Proceedings
Dear Mr. Secretary:
This letter responds to the NRC invitation to comment on the possible reopening of the suspended Generic Environmental Statement on Mixed Oxide (GESMO) proceedings (re: Federal Register Vol. 45, No. 158, p. 53933; August 13, 1980). The Commission shculd reopen GESMO proceedings. The NRC suspension of these proceedings in December 1977 prevented a thorough public review of economic, en-vironmental, safety and safeguard issues associated with fuel recycle. The NRC should undertake to continue the needed public review process to determine whether reprocessing and recycle of nuclear fuel is a viable cption for commercial nuclear power in the United States.
The GESMO proceedings, if carried through to conclusion, should tell us whether spent fuel can justifiably be called a recoverable energy resource. Failure to proceed with GESMO presumes that someone other than the American public has unilaterally concluded otherwise.
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