ML23024A195

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

ML23024A195
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/24/2023
From:	Landis C - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Bollwerk G, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23024A195 (1)

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From: Carol Landis To: Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk

Subject:

[External_Sender] Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 1:07:27 PM Honorable ASLB Panel Chair and NRC Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff:

Thank you for your memorandum dated January 23, 2023. I am submitting a limited appearance statement in order to make the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board aware of my concerns at issue in this proceeding.

I respectfully ask that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board grant the request for a hearing from the Erwin Citizens Awareness Network (ECAN) and reject the application by Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) for a license amendment to purify uranium for nuclear weapons.

I'm concerned about the environmental and societal impacts of such a change in operations at NFS. At the very least, a hearing should be allowed to weigh evidence of the history of NFS, to consider its ability to safely conduct the proposed changes, the ethics and implications of continuing chemical and radioactive degradation of our region's water and air, and the legality of continued proliferation of nuclear weapons.

ECAN simply requests a hearing to address four contentions:

(1)A demand to rigorously investigate ongoing chemical and radioactive poisoning of underground and surface water; (2)an insistence on a quality assurance program; (3)a comprehensive assessment of the cumulative impacts on the environment of this 65-year-old plant; and (4)a challenge to the legality of making new weapons material at a private company when U.S. and international law prohibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Such a request seems reasonable, given the long-term and regional aspects of the proposed changes at NSF to our citizens.

/s/ Carol E. Landis 144 Cuyler Willee Rd.

Johnson City TN 37601

I gratefully acknowledge I live upon ancestral Yuchi/Cherokee land and am blessed with the Loving Waters of the Buffalo Creek watershed, part of the Watauga, Holston-French Broad, Tennessee, and Mississippi river basins.