ML20211M152

Comment (66) of Martin Sattison on Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Project

ML20211M152
Person / Time
Site:	HI-STORE
Issue date:	07/17/2020
From:	Sattison M American Nuclear Society (ANS)
To:	Office of Administration
References
85FR16150 00066, NRC-2018-0052
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Page 1 of 1 SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Jill Caverly As of: 7/29/20 11:22 AM Received: July 17, 2020 COMMENT (66) Status: Pending_Post PUBLIC SUBMISSION PUBLICATION DATE: 3/20/2020 Tracking No. 1k4-9hv4-4iy8 CITATION 85 FR Comments Due: September 22, 2020 16150 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-0375 Comment on FR Doc # 2020-05690 Submitter Information Name: Idaho Section American Nuclear Society Address:

c/o Martin Sattison 4139 Mirinda Lane Ammon, ID, 83406 General Comment On behalf of the Idaho Section of the American Nuclear Society:

There are adequate grounds for assuming that the proposed storage of spent nuclear reactor fuel at Holtec's proposed facility will be safe. The same fuel has already been stored for as much as decades without safety or environmental problems at nuclear power reactors in many parts of the USA and the world. Overcrowding of current storage locations necessitates transferring it to centralized storage. Additionally, the closure of a few nuclear power plants requires the reactors and spent fuel to be removed to make room for future land use.

Regarding the safety of transport, realize that thousands of tons of spent fuel have already been transported around the country in past years from crowded storage facilities to facilities owned by the same company that have space available. All of this has occurred without safety incidents.

Present official intention is to later remove this spent fuel from interim storage and dispose of it in a deep geological repository, such as the partially completed site at Yucca Mountain. However, for the purpose of conserving a valuable resource, we advocate removal of this temporarily stored spent fuel, chemically separating the remaining uranium and the other actinides for future use in a power reactor, and disposing only the unusable portion of the fission products in a deep geological repository.

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