ML23019A358

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

ML23019A358
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/19/2023
From:	Bliss R - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Bollwerk G, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC/SECY
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23019A358 (1)

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From: rachael bliss To: Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk; William Froehlich; Sue Abreu

Subject:

[External_Sender] Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Honorable ASLB Judges:

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 5:53:56 PM Hon. Paul Bollwerk, Hon. William Froehlich, Hon. Sue Abreau, Judges Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Rockville, MD 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).

Technology for making nuclear-weapons material & 96% U-235 will be transferred from a government facility to a private, for-profit corporation; The new project will double NFSs current air emissions of U-234, U-235, U-238 and other toxic chemicals6; NFS discharges nuclear waste through its permitted outfall into the Nolichucky River -

source of drinking water for thousands of families in Jonesborough, Greeneville and the surrounding downstream counties; Enriched uranium with NFSs chemical fingerprints on it has contaminated the entire 95-river-mile stretch of the Nolichucky downstream of Erwin to at least Douglas Lake; There are eight (8) new accident scenarios associated with this process: Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride Release; Anhydrous Ammonia Release (both chemicals are new to NFS operations); Nuclear Criticality (nuclear chain reaction); Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) Release; Uranium Solution Release; Natural phenomena; and Security Emergencies.

You can reach me here.

/s/ Rachael Roberts Bliss 75 Haywood St, Apt 704 Asheville, NC. 28801 828-505-9425 Sent from my iPad