ML20309B098
| ML20309B098 | |
| 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: ML20309B098 (5) | |
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From:
Patricia A. Marida <patmarida@outlook.com>
Sent:
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 9:13 PM To:
WCS_CISFEIS Resource Cc:
Borges Roman, Jennifer; Park, James
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 November 3, 2020 TO: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioners and NRC Staff c/o Regulations.gov @ Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 WCS_CISF_EIS@nrc.gov Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov James.Park@nrc.gov RE: Interim Storage Partners CISF, Docket ID NRC-2016-0231, Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Public Comment Submission)
Dear NRC Commissioners and Staff:
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement must fully address the following issues:
Illogical Premise: If waste is moved to Interim Storage Partners site, there are only 2 outcomes - either the site becomes a permanent dump, or waste must be moved a second time.
This makes no sense economically or safety-wise, and misleads the public. There are no safety benefits that would not also be present with Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS) at or near reactor sites.
A Mobile Chernobyl: U.S. road/rail/waterway infrastructure is becoming increasingly degraded. Tens of thousands of shipments of waste would travel through states and cities across the nation. Studies predict multiple major accidents, spills and contamination over decades of shipments. Moving this waste would contaminate more areas even if no major accidents occurred.
Uneconomic: Will spend billions unnecessarily.
Does Nothing to Safeguard Deadly Radioactive Waste: In fact, moving waste across the country creates more, not less, storage challenges. This is both during shipment and at the Texas site.
Financial liability would be transferred from utilities to the public once waste is moved to the Interim Storage Partners site. Thats not a good deal for taxpayers.
Environmental Injustice: Native American, Latino and low-income communities are the ones most likely to be dumped on with Consolidated Interim Storage.
Threat to the Ogallala Aquifer: At one time, maps showed that the Ogallala Aquifer was underneath the Waste Control Specialists site. When Waste Control Specialists originally made their license application, the aquifer moved away with the stroke of a pen. Independent studies need to be conducted on the flow of water below the site. Even at the revised distance, hosting high-level radioactive waste at the proposed site would contaminate the irrigation and drinking water for millions of people for hundreds of thousands of years. The Ogallala is the nations largest aquifer.
Questionable Financial Standing: Waste Control Specialists/Interim Storage Partners licensing proceeding was suspended for a year, due to financial difficulties. The EIS must show that Interim Storage Partners has enough financial backing and expertise to remain solvent for the several decades that it would take to move Americas waste to their site.
Questionable Technical Expertise: The Commission must not license the privatization of the storage of high level radioactive waste when the technology does not exist to store this waste in any container for much more than 100 years. The EIS must fully address this.
Permanent Site or Abandonment? The concept of interim storage postpones dealing with real time solutions for the safest possible storage of radioactive waste where it now sits. It is going to stay where it is now for a long time. The only real solution is to stop making it, because detoxifying it is not possible. Interim storage is a political, not a technical, solution and adds nothing to technical expertise. Nowhere in the world does there exist a site suitable for the indefinite storage, or abandonment, of high level radioactive waste.
The EIS must take all these factors into account. I would also like to note that there is Widespread opposition: Consolidated or interim storage was opposed by the U.S. Council of Mayors in 2014, as well as by numerous cities, towns and environmental, social justice and other organizations.
Sincerely,
/s/ Patricia A. Marida Patricia A. Marida 1710 Dorsetshire Rd.
Columbus, OH 43229 patmarida@outlook.com
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