ML20309B109
| ML20309B109 | |
| 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: ML20309B109 (2) | |
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From:
Rebecca M Summer <becsummer@gmail.com>
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020 7:05 PM To:
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[External_Sender] Nuclear waste proposal in West Texas
Dear members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
This nuclear waste proposal in West Texas, just across the border from New Mexico, will transport 40,000 tons of dangerous spent nuclear fuel from reactors across the country. The waste will be dangerous for millions of years and poses a huge risk to the local community, water supplies, and those living along transportation routes. According to Public Citizen, low income communities of color in the Southwest will be most impacted.
Potential impacts in southwest New Mexico stem from transportation of spent nuclear fuel from operating, decommissioning or decommissioned nuclear reactor facilities in Arizona and California. This high-level radioactive waste would be transported via Union Pacific Railway, passing through southern New Mexico and West Texas (Lordsburg, Deming, Sunland Park, El Paso-Juarez) and posing a risk from accidents, leaks, sabotage, and even routine transport emissions. The NRCs Draft Environmental Impact Statement does not evaluate the risk to communities along transportation routes.
Please remember that, as Senator Tom Udall has said several times, New Mexico has already done its share of Federal nuclear projects. Remember the Trinity Site here in NM in 1945? Downwinders, people living downwind from that site, have family members who died from this, and cancer is still affecting these people. NM has done its share. We do not need more possibilities of radioactive disasters in or around our state.
We ask you, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to deny the license for Waste Control Specialists/ Interim Storage Partners!
Thank you for your consideration of this potential catastrophic situation.
Rebecca M Summer, PhD Member of the pre-WIPP project on the Expert Scientists Team at Sandia Labs.
8 Fotis Road, Silver City, NM
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