ML20269A098
| ML20269A098 | |
| 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: ML20269A098 (3) | |
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From:
Catherine Skopic <catherineskopic@yahoo.com>
Sent:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:57 PM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource Cc:
Kevin@beyondnuclear.org; Tim Judson; Kathryn Bartholomew
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2018-0052 Draft Environmental Impact Statement Comment.
Greetings NRC Staff.
You have a difficult problem on your hands - what to do with 173,600 metric tons of nuclear waste. Holtec has presented you with a solution - at this point, probably any solution looks good to you. It must be difficult for you to be objective, as this nuclear waste keeps piling up and you, Staff of the NRC, are ultimately responsible.
Those of us who are not NRC Staff can, perhaps, see a little more objectively. Within the 4,200 plus comments submitted, 95% are against this project. Does that tell you something? Is it possible so many people are understanding something you do not?
Looking at the history of this issue, we see - thanks to the Sierra Club Guidance on Implementing Sierra Club Policy on the Management of High-Level Nuclear Waste - that way back when the federal government was supposed to develop plans for a permanent geological repository for high level waste within a rock formation selected to be stable for the long-time future, rather than developing a scientific, detailed technical list of criteria, and then searching for a location that met that criteria, the federal government made a few site selections and then narrowed it down to Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and we know how that turned out.
(Any other examples of government and our leaders not following the science of a situation? Is this a recurring theme? Another theme, the selection appears to have been a political decision. Does this sound familiar?)
Despite the problem on the hands of government and the NRC since then, they still have not launched a scientific and technical search for the ideal repository to this day.
Instead, they now plan to give a "proven to be faulty private company" the job that will ultimately prove to be destructive to people, environments and living things in the state and endanger all parts of the country along the nuclear waste transport routes.
I have to believe there are NRC Staff members more caring and wise than this. Don't ask me why, I have to believe that people eventually will learn from their mistakes.
I have to believe that a commission charged with protecting people will this day do so.
NRC Staff, reject the Holtec CISF project in New Mexico.
Thank you, PEACE, Catherine Skopic
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