ML20280A055
| ML20280A055 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 09/21/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR27447 | |
| Download: ML20280A055 (3) | |
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Dear Reference Docket ID NRC-2016-0231,
As a U S Navy officer during the Vietnam war, I was the Top Secret Control Officer at U S Naval Base near McAlester, Oklahoma. That base (since closed) dealt with the development and manufacture of both conventional Navy weaponry (bombs, rockets, etc, and, sadly, shotgun shells for the Los Angelos CA Police Department, to be used against U S citizenry during the riots at that time), and missiles with nuclear warheads. We had to learn and maintain a full, and growing, knowledge of the great dangers of radioactivity to all living creatures, and their environment, in the manufacture, delivery, and storage of nuclear weaponry. Those dangers pertain fully to all of the current, non-military development and use of nuclear reactors and, specifically, the still-highly radioactive waste of their spent usable energy. That radioactive waste can last for decades, and even centuries! My experience, in all of the years following the Vietnam era, and the development of nuclear weaponry, has been that very few of the world's(!)
citizenry fully understand the extreme dangers inherent in such a power source!
Office of Administration Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M Attn: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 RE: Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), Docket No. 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231 Interim Storage Project?s license application to construct and operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and Greater-Than Class C (GTCC) waste.
I oppose Interim Storage Project's plan to store dangerous high-level nuclear waste in Andrews County, Texas. This environmentally unjust plan would target a largely Latinx region of the country with the deadliest nuclear waste. The region is unsuitable for storing nuclear waste since it?s prone to earthquakes, sinkholes, temperature extremes, wildfires, intense storms and flooding. The hydrogeology of the site is still uncertain.
The NRC has ignored many key health and safety issues raised in thousands of previous comments and in 100 legal contentions, many of which were backed by expert testimony. The inadequate Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) shows that the NRC is still not addressing these concerns.
Some of the many concerns that have not been addressed by this application include:
- Threats from terrorism aren?t adequately addressed and the potential use of drones wasn?t considered.
- Transportation routes were not designated and accident risks have been artificially minimized.
- The DEIS fails to adequately analyze cumulative impacts of the proposed facility and nearby sites on workers, local people and the environment.
- The risks of creating a dangerous de facto permanent site were not included, and nuclear waste should not be moved across the country to a site not designed for permanent disposal.
This nation must end environmental injustice and halt disproportionate impacts on people of color.
Dumping the most toxic nuclear waste of a whole nation on the largely Latinx Southwest region is the height of environmental injustice. The site is only a few miles from communities like Eunice and Hobbs, New Mexico, and the waste would flow through many densely populated communities of color on its way there.
I oppose Consolidated Interim Storage at this, and other sites. The NRC should protect public health and safety, the economy and the environment, by halting the application process and denying the license for Consolidated Interim Storage.
Sincerely, Herbert and Carolyn Tinney 4117 Hidden View Ct Round Rock, TX 78665 hwtinney@earthlink.net (716) 982-9128 This message was sent by KnowWho, as a service provider, on behalf of an individual associated with Sierra Club. If you need more information, please contact Lillian Miller at Sierra Club at core.help@sierraclub.org or (415) 977-5500.
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