ML20269A123
| ML20269A123 | |
| 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: ML20269A123 (3) | |
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Protecting NM From All Things Nuclear
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:05 PM To:
Holtec-CISFEIS Resource Cc:
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[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2018-0052 Draft Environmental Impact Statement Comment
Dear NRC Staff,
The following comments were transcribed from the video recording of the Peoples Hearing held by the Nuclear Issues Study Group on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 (Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCBsXCQyOU). These written comments are being submitted with the consent of the commenters. The transcription was made possible by the work of the Nuclear Issues Study Group volunteers.
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ISAAC RODRIGUEZ Hi everyone, my name is Isaac Rodriguez. I'm a UNM student right now. Im currently taking a class on Nuclear New Mexico with Eileen O'Shaughnessy. And so this is where I heard about this Holtec proposal. I want to start out by just saying that our state is being marginalized as a wasteland, you know, they are constituting us as a space that is marginal, worthless or polluted; and therefore they are going ahead and labeling us as suitable for destruction and dumping of toxic waste. As a New Mexico native, this really is concerning. We spend, we already know that in Monument Valley there have been issues with nuclear waste and radiation to the population out there of indigenous natives, and this is a type of nuclear colonialism as we talk about in our class; and we're being impacted by the NRC to, I mean, to dump in our state, in our beautiful state. This is a state thats, of course, we spend a lot of time outside. We spend a lot of time in our state parks. You know, we're a very outgoing, outgoing state or culture I would say, and so when we are supposed to put all this nuclear waste in a state or in a part of the state where, of course, there are people living, there are natives there, there are other people, other native New Mexicans there. And I think they're being marginalized as a people and being brought down. And I think us as a state, as a people, we need to get together and we to raise our voice. This is, this is very important. I have never heard about this, before this class, for the class I've taken, and so this idea that we, no one knows, New Mexico people do not know about this. We need to get it out. Its concerning. I have started my own, my own self, started to talk to everyone I know and tell them, to get them informed and to get them included in this, so they can go ahead and write some letters and, you know, make a change. I also wanted to say, I have a question actually, this is more of a question: Where does the data that, where or how do they get the data that supports the claim that minorities will not be impacted by this proposal? I mean, is this data available to the public? How do they come up with that
when we already know, once again, for example Monument Valley, that there is, there is problems and issues that happen with radioactive nuclear waste. I just want everyone to know that, raise your voice, tell everyone you know, get the word out. We need to stop this. We're not the only ones who are going to be impacted that it's the nuclear waste is going to be moved from other states, across across state lines and it's going to contaminate all the way till it gets to New Mexico and then we're going to have to deal with that for the next 40 years. We are a state that has a lot of wind storms and dust storms. It's simple and easy for it to move throughout our state not not even saying that it can't get to our water sources, underground water sources and polluting it. I want everyone to just step up, and make their voice heard. And I appreciate everyone for their comments and this work thats done by Leona, thank you very much. It has been very informative and has really opened my eyes to the issues that we are dealing here in New Mexico. We are a state that also has Los Alamos here and so there was some projects done here, but yet people still also don't even know about about those issues and so it's really our, it's our, it's our job to make a stand, to make a change for our state and also for other states that will be impacted too by the moving of this nuclear waste.
Thank you everyone.
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