ML20036C013
| ML20036C013 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 06/08/1993 |
| From: | Otters G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Arnold W LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9306080298 | |
| Download: ML20036C013 (1) | |
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A Goldie Otters 3811 Bluff Pl.
San Pedro, CA 90731 W.
Howard Arnold, President Louisiana Energy Services, L.P.
2121 K St.
Suite 850 Washington, D.C.
20037
Dear Mr. Arnold,
I am adamantly opposed to Louisiana Energy Services' planned uranium enrichment facility in Homer, Louisiana, near Forest Grove and Center Springs.
Residents of these. low-income, predominantly black communities are adamantly opposed to the plant because it poses very significant environmental and safety threats to the area.
Your facility would convert natural uranium into fuel (U-235) for nuclear power reactors, in the process creating 4,000 tons of radioactive U-238 waste each year.
U-238 remains hazardous for millions of years.
The waste would probably be stored on the plant's 450-acre site.
Polluting water from the plant would be discharged into the Lake Clairborne watershed, affecting local wells relied on for drinking water.
Uranium hexafluoride used in the plant's centrifuges would, if accidentally released, mix with air to create a deadly cloud of hydrogen fluoride.
The need for this dangerous project is questionable.-
Currently, the Department of Energy operates enrichment plants that are only operating at 50% of capacity, and producing enriched uranium at a lower cost than that to be produced by LES.
There is currently a worldwide overcapacity for producing enriched uranium.
Considering the local opposition, the questionable'need for this facility, the significant threat to the health and safety of the community, and the massive amounts of nuclear waste to be produced, I strongly urge you to immediately cancel all plans to construct this facility.
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