ML23026A337

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

ML23026A337
Person / Time
Site:	Erwin
Issue date:	01/24/2023
From:	Stephen Baker - No Known Affiliation
To:	Sue Abreu, Bollwerk G, William Froehlich Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
70-143-LA
Download: ML23026A337 (1)

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From: Scott Baker To: Docket, Hearing

Subject:

[External_Sender] RE: Proposed License Amendment Request, Nuclear Fuel Services, Docket No.70-143 Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 9:19:18 AM Hon. Paul Bollwerk, Hon. William Froehlich, Hon. Sue Abreau, Judges Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Rockville, MD Via email only to hearing.docket@nrc.gov, paul.bollwerk@nrc.gov, william.froehlich@nrc.gov, sue.abreu@nrc.gov 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).

International law now prohibits even the possession of nuclear weapons, as well as their development.

As a member of the Western North Carolina chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a whitewater rafter who enjoys the recreational and environmental advantages of a river like the Nolichucky I strongly urge you to decline the request of BWX Technologies to expand its production to include the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium. As this uranium would be used to arm nuclear weapons it is a clear violation of international law. In that it is making possible a nuclear holocaust that claims thousands, and perhaps millions of lives it is immoral and inhumane. As a member of the surrounding community in Asheville, North Carolina I must state that we do not want business enterprises of this kind to operate anywhere near us - endangering us environmentally and militarily. I urge you in the strongest terms to decline this request.

Sincerely,

/s/ Scott Allan Baker, D.Min.

President, Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility