ML14323B022

Regcon, November 19-20, 2014: 03-Info-Session-2 Ronald Johnson - Tribal Perspective on Continued Storage

ML14323B022
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Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	11/19/2014
From:	Rachel Johnson Prairie Island Indian Community
To:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
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TRIBAL PERSPECTIVE ON CONTINUEDSTORAGE CONTINUED STORAGENovember19,2014November 19, 2014Ronald JohnsonTribalCouncilPresidentTribal Council PresidentPrairie Island Indian Community PrairieIslandIndianPrairie Island Indian Community -Background oDescendantsofMdewakanton o Descendants of Mdewakanton Band of Eastern Dakota -"Those whoWereBornoftheWaters "who Were Born of the Waters oMdewakanton Dakota have lived on PrairieIslandTintaWitaforPrairie Island , Tinta Wita , for generations due to its richness in aquaticandterrestrialresourcesaquatic and terrestrial resources oApproximately 3,200 acres tribal ld l an d 2 Location 3 4

ISFSI<1milefromPIIC

'sLower ISFSI < 1 mile from PIICs Lower Island reservation area and about 600yardsfromthenearesthomes.

600 yards from the nearest homes.5Photo By: Mark Fredrickson 6

"Continued Stora ge" formerl y gyknown as "Waste Confidence"". . . the quality or state of being certain"certain. . .-or--or -"ofrelatingtooradeptat . . . o f , relating to , or adept at swindling by false promises . . ."Source: Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10 thEd. 1993) at 241-242.

7 Seven Generations

• Spent Nuclear Fuel has already been stored on site far longer than originally promised.

• Indefiniteonsitespent fuel Indefinite on site spent fuel storage creates long-term issues affecting more than Seven Generations.

8 The NRC cannot fulfill the D.C.

C'Circuit's mandate to analyze the impacts associated with long-termonsitestoragebyassumingterm , on site storage by assuming there will be no long-term, on site storagestorage. *On what basis can the NRC assumethatcaskswillbe assume that casks will be reloaded every 100 years?OhtbithNRC

• O n w h a t b as i s can th e NRC assume that institutional controlswillexistin100controls will exist in 100 years? In 200 years?

9 Will ade quate fundin g be available qgin 100 years? In 200 years?

• Theaveragepricepercaskat

• The average price per cask at the PINGP ISFSI has increased by734%inlessthan25years

-by 734% in less than 25 years from $812,500 in 1990 to $5.96

million in 2013.

• Should the NRC assume that per caskcostswillincreasebythis cask costs will increase by this same percentage every 25 years?years? 10 11Photo By: Mark Fredrickson Preserve Ancestral Homeland, Culture & Herita g e g Questions?

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