ML20248H419
| ML20248H419 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 09/03/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR16150 | |
| Download: ML20248H419 (2) | |
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From:
Baker-Smith <egbakersmith@gmail.com>
Sent:
Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:00 PM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2018-0052 We are writing to express our concern about the environmental racism being exhibted by the Holtec, New Mexico consolidated interim storage facility. We are commenting on Docket ID NRC-2018-0052.
The views of grassroots New Mexicans who oppose this de facto permanent, surface storage, parking lot dump in their state must be hard and paid attention to. See Laura Watchempino of Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment's, and Albuquerque resident Sam Weisberg's, op-eds, and Janet Greenwald of Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping's letter to the editor, recently published in the Albuquerque Journal.
(2) ALSO, the NRC's time-limited focus on just 40 years of "temporary storage" is inappropriately, arbitrarily short, given Holtec's own admission in its license application to NRC that "interim storage" could persist for 120 years; in response to a Request for Information from DOE, Holtec admitted a CISF could operate for 300 years; and in NRC's own 2014 Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rule and Generic EIS, the agency acknowledged away-from-reactor ISFSIs (Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations) could go on indefinitely (that is, forevermore). Institutional control could be lost over such long time periods. Failed containers could release catastrophic amounts of hazardous radioactivity directly into the surface environment, to blow downwind, flow downstream, bioconcentrate up the food chain, and harm people down the generations.
We have lived in SE Washington state, where the issues of radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Facility are also a real problem with no good resolution.
Please take action against this radioactive racism and irresponsibility.
Thank you for your attention.
Gerritt and Elizabeth Baker-Smith 5704 W Norfolk Rd Portsmouth, VA 23703
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