NOTICE OF APPEAL OF LBP-19-11 BY INTERVENOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION AND BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF APPEAL

SEED Coalition's legal counsel, attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, has filed this appeal to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

SEED Coalition's legal standing was acknowledged by the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing (ASLB) Board in this licensing proceeding.

SEED Coalition was one of seven grassroots groups, in a nationwide environmental coalition, opposed to the ISP/WCS CISF (Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists consolidated interim storage facility).

The filing is in response to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's rejection of intervention contentions against the licensing of the Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists consolidated interim storage facility.

The subject matter of SEED's latest contention had to do with the high risk of Mobile Chernobyls, Dirty Bombs on Wheels, and/or Floating Fukushimas -- the shipment of highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel, vulnerable to severe accidents, or terrorist attacks.

Sierra Club, Beyond Nuclear, and Fasken Oil and Gas, have also intervened against the licensing of the ISP/WCS CISF. All have appealed the ASLB's rejection of their interventions to the NRC Commissioners.

The ISP/WCS CISF scheme proposes "temporary storage" for 40,000 metric tons of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at Andrews County, West Texas.

However, it risks de facto permanent, surface storage.

This risks catastrophic releases of hazardous radioactivity over long enough time periods, as containers fail due to loss of institutional control (societal collapse, failure to replace corroded canisters), and their forever deadly high-level radioactive waste contents leak into the environment.