ML20044F019
| ML20044F019 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 04/26/1993 |
| From: | Warneke C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9305260381 | |
| Download: ML20044F019 (2) | |
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P.O. Box 963 Long Beach, WA 98631 April 26, 1993
'r Ivan Selin, Chairman United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission i
Washington, DC 20555 i
Dear Mr Selin:
I am writing to urge you to advise the NRC licensing board to DENf Louisiana Energy Services application to construct a uranium enrichment facility in Homer, Louisiana. The local communities of Forest Grove and Center Springs are adamantly spoosed to having the LES plant located in their backyard.
A byproduct of the enrichment process will be the production of approximately 4,000 tons of radioactive uranium-238 waste annually. U-238 remains hazardous for millions of years.
If this plant is allowed to be developed, in all probability this hazardous U-238 waste will be stored on the plant's site.
Polluting water from the plant will be discharged into the Lake Claiborne I
watershed.
There are 40 homes with 5 miles of the proposed facility that rely on wells for their drinking water.
These wells could become contaminated by the polluted discharges.
Elderly residents who would be living near the plant are i
very concerned about how rapidly they could flee the area in the event of an
, l accidental UF6 discharge.
Please take a closer look at the issue of environmental racism and the role that i
I it might have played in deciding to site this plant so near two small black communities.
Statistics from the report Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States and other studies indicate that an overwhelmingly disporportionate number 1
of toxic waste sites, incinerators and hazardous chemical and industrial operations are sited in poor, minority communities.
LES also plans to close and rercute the only road that services Forest Grove and Center Springs.
This is most unjust to the business and residents of these two towns.
Mr. Selin, you have the power to see that this construction application is denied.
currently the Department of Energy's enrichment plants are only operating at 50%
of capacity and there is already a worldwide overcapacity for producing enriched uranium.
We do not need and cannot afford the hardships that will be created by building this plant.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
$tsdC Ntlut;/x Y
Carole Warneke 70 3 9305260381 930426 PDR ADDCK 07003070 C
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