ML23026A180

Limited Appearance Statement from Creel Allen Pickel, Jr. in the Matter of Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. License Amendment Application

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 & NRC Rulemaking & 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 concerned that weapons work will further pollute the Nolichucky which NFS has contaminated with nuclear waste for 95-river-miles downstream of Erwin. Iam concerned about increased threats & risks to the low-income people of Appalachia & that some of the new processes are experimental. I am concerned about 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.