ML23026A335

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

ML23026A335
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/24/2023
From:	Matthew Green - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Paul Bollwerk, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23026A335 (1)

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From: MacBryan Green To: Docket, Hearing; Paul Bollwerk; William Froehlich; Sue Abreu

Subject:

[External_Sender] RE: Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Date: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:09:38 PM

Via email only to hearing.docket@nrc.gov, paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov,

william.froehlich@nrc.gov, sue.abreu@nrc.gov

The Hon. Paul Bollwerk, The Hon. William Froehlich, The Hon. Sue Abreau, Judges

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

Rockville, MD

RE: Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143

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 town of Erwin, Tennessee has been important to me since childhood; my great grandfather and grandfather worked for the CC&O (later Clinchfield) Railroad based in Erwin, and lived with their dear wives within easy walking distance of the current Nuclear Fuel Services site. For over fifty years I have hiked the Appalachian Trail across the Nolichucky River as it exits its wilderness gorge just upstream of NFS, and I have fished, kayaked and swum in the Nolichucky above and below NFS. Most of the Nolichucky River is of such outstanding scenic value that it deserves to be a national park. I am certain that allowing NFS to produce greater quantities or concentrations of refined uranium will dramatically increase the (already unacceptable to me) risks to the Nolichucky River -- which deserves greater protection, not greater endangerment.

I was & am still horrified over the vile wicked corrupt Bumpass Cove SuperToxic WasteDump Scandal along the Nolichucky River perhaps six miles below NFS.

https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1848&context=etd In my opinion, approval of the proposed NFS project almost ensures that the Bumpass Cove Scandal will eventually seem trivial in comparison to the catastrophe which NFS will someday produce; perhaps the trigger will be an 'act of God' such as severe flooding or sinkhole collapse; perhaps it will be a dirth of personnel to run the plant, secondary to a more ruthless pandemic than Covid-19; or collapse of grid & internet secondary to solar CME; or negligence and greed and corruption as for many years at Bumpass Cove -- which proved that these state & local governments will actually cooperate with illegal dumping. Nor is the reputation of NFS reassuring in that regard; by reputation NFS is not respected by the local people except for its higher wages.

I am informed that Navy fuel (the product that NFS has historically produced) is 20% U-235, but that uranium for nuclear weapons is enriched to 96% U-235. I am informed that there are eight new accident scenarios associated with this process: Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride Release; Anhydrous Ammonia Release (both chemicals are new to NFS operations); Nuclear Criticality (nuclear chain reaction); Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) Release; Uranium Solution Release; Natural phenomena; and Security Emergencies.

I despise the idea that technology for making nuclear-weapons material & 96% U-235 will be transferred from a government facility to a private, for-profit corporation

I urge you to allow as much public comment for as long a period of time as possible.

I urge you to resist the demands of Fat Cat$ and warlord$ who are willing to sacrifice the Earth itself (to pollution & war) so that they may hold on to their excess privilege and vast

'storehouses' of unrighteous Mammon. It is past time to put an end to the idiocy, as emphasized by my favorite hymn,

Turn Back O Man, forswear thy foolish ways,

Old now is Earth and none may count her days,

Yet though her child, whose head is crowned with flame,

Still will not hear thine inner God proclaim,

'Turn Back O Man, forswear thy foolish ways.'

Put an end to this NFS proposal and to all the related idiocy.

Sincerely,

/s/ MacBryan Green, MD

MacBryan Green, MD macbryangreen@gmail.com Johnson City, TN 37604