ML20299A232
| ML20299A232 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/13/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR27447 | |
| Download: ML20299A232 (2) | |
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From:
William Maynard <wlmaynard@eldergnome.com>
Sent:
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:57 PM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] No nuclear waste in Texas
Dear Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Dear NRC Commissioners and Staff,
Interim Storage Projects application to store radioactive waste in Texas would bring in 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors around the country.
The plan would target a Latinx community with deadly nuclear waste. Stored waste would be at risk from earthquakes, sinkholes, temperature extremes, wildfires, intense storms and flooding.
Consolidated interim storage is an illegal approach that fails to solve our nuclear waste problem.
With this proposal, the NRC ignored expert testimony, local opposition, and tens of thousands of written and oral comments.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is deficient because it fails to:
- Account for disproportionate impacts to low-income communities of color (environmental justice communities) in the American Southwest and along transport routes.
- Details transportation routes and consider nationwide risk to millions of Americans along transport routes.
- Consider a risk of leaks, sabotage, or transportation accidents.
- Include a plan to repackage leaking waste casks and a plan to move waste when required.
- Complete required alternatives analysis by considering Hardened Onsite Storage Systems (HOSS) as an alternative to Consolidated Interim Storage.
- Consider past nuclear waste accidents that cost hundreds of millions to billions of dollars to clean up.
- Detail cumulative impacts of proposed facility and nearby sites on workers, local people, and our environment.
- Analyze groundwater potential contamination.
I oppose Consolidated Interim Storage at this and other sites. The DEIS fails to adequately analyze environmental and cumulative impacts and the socioeconomic risks of the proposed radioactive waste storage application. 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, William Maynard 12115 Tanglewood Ln Bowie, MD 20715
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