ML20045D597
| ML20045D597 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 05/03/1993 |
| From: | Keske K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9306290194 | |
| Download: ML20045D597 (1) | |
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9 Kathleen Keske 135 Seventh Avenue
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Apartment 2R V
llrooklyn, New York 11215 May 3, 1993 Ivan Selin, Chairman United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555
Dear Mr. Selin:
It has been brought to my attention that the Louisiana Energy Servicer (LES) has submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for permission to build the United States' first privately owned uranium enrichment plant in Homer, Louisiana.
I would urge you to advise the NRC licensing board to deny LES's application to construct this uranium enrichment facility.
Currently, the Department of Energy's enrichment plants are only operating at 50% of capacity.
The Department of Energy is consider-ing utilizing advanced technologies to enrica uranium which pose no threat.
Additionally, there is already a worldwide overcapacity for producing enriched uranium.
This plant will be built very near the low income, predomi-nantly black communities of Forest Grove and Center Springs.
These communities are adamantly opposed to having the LES plant located in their backyard.
I encourage you to take a look at the issue of environmental racism and the role that it might have played in deciding to site a plant so near to two small black communities.
Statistics indicate that an overwhelmingly disproportionate number of toxic waste site, incinerators, 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.
The polluting water from this plant will be discharged into the Lake Claiborne watershed.
40 homes within five miles of the facility rely on wells for their drinking water.
Also, a retirement community surrounds the shores of Lake Claiborne.
Elderly residents living near the plant are without transportation and are concerned about how rapidly they can flee the area in the event of an acciden-tal discharge.
In conclusion, there is no need for this uranium enrichment plant, and these communities in rural Louisiana do not want them.
Again, I urge you to advise the NRC licensing board to deny LES's application to construct this uranium enrichment facility.
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