ML23026A180
| ML23026A180 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Erwin |
| Issue date: | 01/26/2023 |
| From: | Pickel C - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Paul Bollwerk Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| 70-143-LA | |
| Download: ML23026A180 (1) | |
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From:
Creel Pickel To:
Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk
Subject:
[External_Sender] Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Date:
Thursday, January 26, 2023 11:09:58 AM Honorable ASLB Panel Chair & NRCRulemaking & Adjudications Staff:
Thank you for your January 23, 2023 MEMORANDUM.I am submitting a limited appearance statement in order to make the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board aware of my concerns at issue in the subject proceeding.
For the following reasons I am in favor of ECAN's hearing request and I am opposed to NFS being licensed to produce weapons grade uranium.
I am opposed to purifying uranium for the bomb at a private company in the middle of a small town in close proximity to homes & schools, an interstate & the Nolichucky River, source of drinking water for Jonesborough & Greeneville. I am concernedthat weapons work will further pollute the Nolichucky which NFS has contaminated with nuclear waste for 95-river-miles downstream of Erwin. Iamconcerned about increased threats & risks to the low-income people of Appalachia & that some of the new processes are experimental. I am concernedabout the 8 new accident scenarios that this uranium purification project will introduce. I support the following positions of ECAN (1)that NRC investigate ongoing chemical & radioactive poisoning of underground &
surface water; (2)that NFS be required to adopt a strict quality assurance program throughout its operations; (3)that a comprehensive assessment of the cumulative impacts on the environment of this 65-year-old plant - that is, an EIS -- is long overdue and must be done; and (4)that a proliferation assessment be performed on the legality of making nuclear weapons material at a private company when U.S. and international law prohibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
/s/ Creel Allen Pickel Jr.