ML20269A036
| ML20269A036 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 09/22/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR16150 | |
| Download: ML20269A036 (3) | |
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From: carol jagiello <cjags91@optonline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:47 PM To: Holtec-CISFEIS Resource
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[External_Sender] 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 ...
I am vehemently opposed to the shady Hotltec being given the position of the new nuclear expertise company for various proposals. They have proven to be un trust worthy in NJ, Utah and other locations. Whistleblowers -- namely Oscar Shirani at Commonwealth Edison/Exelon, and Dr. Ross Landsman at NRC -- first revealed widespread quality assurance violations by Holtec in the design and fabrication of its containers in the early 2000s. Neither Holtec nor NRC have rectified this problem much, or at all, since. Thus, Shirani questioned the integrity of Holtec containers sitting still, going zero miles per hour, let alone 60 miles per hour down the railroad tracks, subject to the extreme forces of severe accidents. Landsman compared NRC's decision making to that of NASA's, which led to Space Shuttles hitting the ground. See a summary of their QA violation whistle-blowing, here.
Holtec CEO Krishna Singh also attempted to bribe Shirani and Landsman into silence. They refused and rejected his bribe offer, and continued to blow the whistle.
Singh was implicated in a $55,000 bribe made to a Tennessee Valley Authority Browns Ferry nuclear power plant official in Alabama, made to secure a contract there.
When asked on a tax break application form, under oath, by a State of NJ agency, Krishna Singh answered that Holtec had never been banned nor barred from doing business with a federal agency or state government. This was a lie. Holtec had been banned and barred from doing business with TVA, after the bribergy scandal at Browns Ferry. Singh's falsehood on the tax break application form was uncovered by ProPublic and WNYC in May 2019. It has led to a major scandal in New Jersey (Holtec's home base), with ongoing investigations. Singh's lie secured a $260 million tax break for Holtec, which was used to build a brand new, major manufacturing plant in Camden, NJ, which bears Singh's name. Should a company like Holtec, and a CEO like Krishna Singh, be entrusted with 173,600 metric tons of highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel? The rogue behaviors they have exhibited would make that a resounding NO! Learn more about the many skeletons in Holtec's and Singh's closets, here.
This proposal has been hard fought by experts across all fields as wells as citizens through out the US who will suffer real harm if any component of this goes wrong. The chances are great there will be accidents, leaks or spills in transit and un sound storage methods. I have written several times about why this dangerous proposal needs more time for expert and public study to comment, especially in consideration of virus shutdown that for months has disrupted all our daily lives.
Since my own circumstance has caused me to comment now in the late hours of the last day, I am un able to be fully informed other than to state my strong objection to all the ways NRC and Hotltec have ignored federal rules and regulations, used the same studies and reports across multiple applications, been vague and incomplete, sort of like the old oils spill plans that mention walrus in the Gulf of Mexico. Same copy for different proposals written by industry.
Temporary has yet to be defined. With more than a decade to be specific, Holtec has not defined the meaning and NRC has not pushed. So we must then consider this permenant storage. How will that differ?. Temporary for 40 years or the end of the century or beyond? Does it matter?
Yes The basis of proposal and reports are all based on temporary storage.
Interim Storage is the title of the docket. Docket ID NRC-2018-005 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.
Nuclear waste is deadly. There is no such thing as a little radioactive waste or any way to contain and remediate. This is not or should not be about private profits and importing other countries toxins. This kind of undertaking must be done with the utmost seriousness and care, not at all what we have seen over the recent years.
I object to approvals in Docket ID NRC-2018-005. I also call for extentions on comments.
Thank You - Carol Jagiello 91 Wood Pl Bloomingdale, NJ 07403
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