ML20305A421
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| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 10/30/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
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| 85FR27447 | |
| Download: ML20305A421 (3) | |
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From:
Ace Hoffman <rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com>
Sent:
Friday, October 30, 2020 11:57 AM To:
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Subject:
[External_Sender] Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS),
Docket No. 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231
Dear Nuclear Regulatory Commission (TX CIS),
The nuclear industry believes they can just put even a cracked-and-leaking canister into a transportation outer-pack and off it goes... but:
One only needs to look at our transportation infrastructure to know that spent fuel transport is a crap shoot.
When the Mianus River Bridge in Connecticut collapsed in 1983, killing three people, including a tractor-trailer driver, I was traveling over that bridge twice a day. I HEARD the screeching of the huge metal pin that eventually failed. I even followed the truck that was next to me the moment I heard the screech to determine if it was the truck I had heard -- or the bridge. I followed it for at least two miles. I saw that truck drive over numerous bumps and potholes in the poorly-maintained I-95 Interstate and it never screeched again. This made me absolutely sure it was the bridge I had heard. A few days or maybe a week later it collapsed. It turned out dozens of local residents had heard it screech repeatedly and complained to CT-DOT, to no avail. CT-DOT did not come out and inspect the bridge, which would have immediately shut down the bridge and saved those lives and millions of dollars in damage.
And then there's the Baltimore Tunnel fire in 2001. Time-at-Temperatures far exceeded anything the spent fuel canisters could have survived. When I mentioned this to Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials they assured me that chemical and fuel trains would not be allowed to be passing the spent fuel trains. This was a made-up baloney excuse off the top of the guy's head at the time. They do that all the time.
Then there was the collapse of the I-35 West bridge in Minnesota in 2007, which killed 13 people and injured 145. A rail line ran below the bridge portion that collapsed; any spent fuel that would have been traveling on that rail line at the time would have been crushed like an egg under an anvil. Any traveling on the bridge would have fallen farther than NRC regulations assume is possible.
If you look at the actual standards that spent fuel casks are expected to meet for drop survivability, crush survivability, fire survivability, etc. it will be obvious these are way too lax (sorry, I haven't actually seen them in many years, but I haven't heard they've been made significantly stronger).
That famous video of a jet plane crashing into one? It was just a fighter jet, and my understanding is that the engine was removed! (this means the turbine shaft -- the part most likely to penetrate a dry cask -- was not there). It wasn't a 747 loaded with fuel, with four enormous turbine shafts. It wasn't traveling nearly as fast as a crashing jet would be going. And it
wasn't a terrorist with a weapon that can penetrate 8 inches of steel or a dozen feet of concrete (such weapons exist and can be obtained by terrorist groups fairly easily).
Their tests are inadequate, their claims are false, their "perfect record" is irrelevant.
Sincerely, Ace Hoffman PO Box 1936 Carlsbad, CA 92018 760-720-7261
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