ML20044E862
| ML20044E862 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 04/12/1993 |
| From: | Sterling P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9305260219 | |
| Download: ML20044E862 (2) | |
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April 12. 1993 Ivan Selin, Chairman United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Mr. Selin, I urge you to advise the NRC licensing board to deny the Louisiana Energy Services (LES) application to construct a
uranium enrichment facility in Homer, Louisiana.
The local com-munities of Forest Grove and Center Springs are adamantly opposed to having the LES plant located in their backyards.
A by-croduct of the enrichment process will be the produc-tion of approximately 4,000 tons of radioactive uranium-238 waste annually. U-239 remains hazardous for millions of years.
Pollut-ing water from the plant will be discharged into the Lake Claiborne watershed.
Forty homes within 5 miles of the facility rely on wells for their drinking water.
Uranium hexaflouride nixes with air to create toxic hydrogen fluoride. ' Elderly resi-dents living near the plant are without transportation and are concerned about how rapidly they can flee the area in' the event I
of an accidental UF6 discharge.
In 1987 the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial i
Justice released its report Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.
Statistics from this report and other studies indicate that a
disproportionate number of toxic waste
- sites, in-cinerators, and hazardous chemical and industrial operations are sited in poor, minority communities.
LES also plans to close and reroute the only road that services Forest Grove and Center Springs.
1 Sincerely, J-Peggy L.
Sterlin 3
Arthur B.
Sterling 5616 Canasta Dr.
Richmond Va. 23234 U.S.A i
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