ML20119A008
| ML20119A008 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 04/26/2020 |
| From: | Martin K - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| 85FR16150 00024, NRC-2018-0052 | |
| Download: ML20119A008 (2) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 4/28/20 7:06 AM Received: April 26, 2020 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. 1k4-9gcm-wrgw Comments Due: July 22, 2020 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2018-0052 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Comment On: NRC-2018-0052-0300 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project Document: NRC-2018-0052-DRAFT-0332 Comment on FR Doc # 2020-05690 Submitter Information Name: Martin Kral Address:
406 Viale Bond Roswell, 88201 Email: mkral@cableone.net General Comment NRC-2018-0052 Reason nine: HI-STORE CISF site has enough acreage for a future heat transfer or liquid fuel conversion facility.
Southeastern New Mexico is the ideal location for Holtec's HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF). The HI-STORE CISF will be located on a small and isolated portion of a thousand acres of undeveloped ELEA land that is geographically stable, with a dry and arid climate that is ideal for the underground dry fuel storage system.
There will be an easy highway and railway access to the facility site. Tucked halfway between Carlsbad and Hobbs, New Mexico, it is only 24 miles north of the WIPP facility. HI_STORE CISF also makes up one of the site points of a nuclear triangle, also referred to as the Nuclear Corridor, with WIPP and URENCO the other two site points.
The project will create jobs for local workers, boosting local incomes that will lead to an improvement in the local infrastructure. Furthermore, the New Mexico populace is highly-educated in the nuclear industry, with a proven and safe history of shaping America's nuclear energy development.
HI-STORE CISF is more than an interim storage facility. It could be the transition location for the recycle and reuse of solid spent nuclear fuel into liquid nuclear fuel for advanced molten salt reactors, the future of the Page 1 of 2 04/28/2020 https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=09000064844ee85d&format=xml&showorig=false SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Jill Caverly COMMENT (24)
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nuclear energy industry. HI-STORE CISF will have the capacity to store the current tonnage of SNF, as well as the generated SNF for decades.
There will be enough stored SNF to power thousands of molten salt reactors around the world for hundreds of years. When you add depleted uranium (DU) to the equation, it increases the fuel base capacity by 10X. There will be no reason to extract more natural uranium from the ground for centuries, if ever again.
A molten salt fuel conversion facility could be built on the same 1,000-acre industrial park for the easy and safe transfer of materials from the storage silos to the conversion building where solid fuel would be converted into chloride salt-based molten fuel to be reshaped into semi-harden cylinders to be stored back into the original canister with a new lattice and placed in the original silo as inventory until needed.
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