ML23023A170

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

ML23023A170
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/20/2023
From:	Lundeen K - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Bollwerk G, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23023A170 (1)

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From: Kelly Lundeen To: Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk; William Froehlich; Sue Abreu

Subject:

[External_Sender] Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Date: Friday, January 20, 2023 4:18:01 PM

Hon. Paul Bollwerk, Hon. William Froehlich, Hon. Sue Abreau, Judges Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Rockville, MD Via email only tohearing.docket@nrc.gov,paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov,william.froehlich@nrc.gov, sue.abreu@nrc.gov

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).

The new project will double NFSs current air emissions of U-234, U-235, U-238 and other toxic chemicals/1/ This is unacceptablefor radioactive contaminants known to be associated with mutagenic and carcinogenic harms.

NFS discharges radioactive waste through its permitted outfall into the Nolichucky River, a source of drinking water for thousands of families in Jonesborough, Greeneville and the surrounding downstream counties. We cannot risk the health of these people.

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.

[1]NFS Response to NRC Request for Additional Information, p.7of43, ML22193A034: The above listed gaseous effluents are similar in attribute

and quantity to those emitted from current operations at the NFS facility.

The health of the ecosystem and thousands of families is not worth risking in order to create bombs to kill people in other parts of the world. TheNRC should reject NFSs application for a license to purify uranium for nuclear weapons. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board should grant the request for a hearing on this topic.

Sincerely,

/s/ Kelly Lundeen 410 7th Avenue Shell Lake, WI 54871