ML20309A963
| ML20309A963 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 11/03/2020 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 85FR27447 | |
| Download: ML20309A963 (3) | |
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From:
Joni Arends <jarends@nuclearactive.org>
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020 11:09 AM To:
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[External_Sender] No nuclear waste in Texas
Dear Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Dear NRC Commissioners and Staff,
Interim Storage Projects (ISP) application proposes to store high-level radioactive waste in Texas. ISP proposes to ship 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial 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 does not solve the nation's nuclear waste problem. With this proposal, the NRC has ignored expert testimony, local opposition, and tens of thousands of written and oral comments.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEOS_ 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.
- Detail transportation routes and consider nationwide risk to millions of Americans along yet unknown transport routes.
- Consider the risk of leaks, sabotage or transportation accidents.
- Include a plan to repackage leaking waste casks and a plan to move waste when required.
- Complete the required alternatives analysis by considering Hardened Onsite Storage Systems (HOSS) as an alternative to the proposed Consolidated Interim Storage.
- Consider past nuclear waste accidents that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions to billions of dollars to clean up.
- Detail cumulative impacts of the proposed facility and nearby sites on workers, emergency responders, local people, and the environment.
- Analyze potential for groundwater contamination.
I oppose the proposed ISP consolidated interim storage facility 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 is required to protect public health and safety, the economy and the environment. The NRC has not met its responsibilities, especially during the COVID-19 global pandemic, which has impacted the USA in unanticipated ways. NRC must stop the ISP application process and deny the license for consolidated interim storage.
Sincerely, Joni Arends
P. O. Box 31147 Santa Fe, NM 87594
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