ML23019A340

Limited Appearance Statement from Laura Mayes in the Matter of Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. License Amendment Application

ML23019A340
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/19/2023
From:	Mayes L - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Bollwerk G, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23019A340 (1)

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From: Laura Mayes To: Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk; William Froehlich; sue.arbrew@nrc.gov

Subject:

[External_Sender] RE: Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No 70-143 Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:11:42 PM

Honorable ASLB Judges:

I am writing to object to the Board's failure to provide clear instructions as to how non-parties to this license amendment proceeding are allowed to provide comments to the Board. The August 31, 2022 Federal Register notice referred non-parties to an ADAMS document which was not hyperlinked, and the notice contained zero explanation that persons would be allowed to provide public comments to the Board at the time of the December 12, 2022 hearing.

NRC regulations at 10 CFR § 2.315(a) state, "A person who is not a party... may, in the discretion of the presiding officer, be permitted to make a limited appearance by making an oral or written statement of his or her position on the issues at any session of the hearing or any prehearing conference within the limits and on the conditions fixed by the presiding officer." This was not done with regard to the Nuclear Fuel Services prehearing on December 12. I thus object and request that the Board place my below comments into the record of this proceeding and be deemed properly submitted pursuant to 10 CFR§ 2.315(a).

I ask you to please consider the gravity and influence this project has on the general population and local community. I am proud to be part of a democracy and as such believe we the people deserve a voice at the table by participating in a public hearing.

Making new weapons material at a privatecompany when U.S. and international law prohibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons brings questions of legality.

This is a 65 year old facility with a terrible track record for accidents involving contamination of surface and underground water, as well air emissions. The air emissions will double.

A facility that goes from working with 20% high-enriched uranium for fuel to another process of 96%

uranium for weapons is too much to ask. Thisis a dangerous, risky business and this project should not happen.

Nuclear weapons not only kill populations, our entire planet is at risk for annihilation.

We must take care by regulating what we have already created and stop any future nuclear weapons from being created.

Thank you,

/s/ Laura Mayes