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Wednesday
Sep232020

Beyond Nuclear's comments re: NRC's Holtec CISF DEIS, as submitted

1st set, submitted June 25th, re: 40 year timeframe is an inappropriately, arbitrarily, and capriciously short scope.

2nd set, submitted June 27th, re: large impacts/risks of high-level radioactive waste transportation, lack of shipment route maps.

3rd set, submitted June 27th, re: complexity and risk of multiple required cask-to-cask canister transfers.

4th set, submitted June 27th, re: NRC Staff's internal contradictions.

5th set, submitted June 27th, re: simply assuming Yucca Mountain, Nevada on Western Shoshone land, is false, indefensible, and a violation of treaty obligations (that is, illegal).

6th set, submitted June 27th, re: Shirani and Landsman whistle-blowing about Holtec's quality assurance (QA) violations; Holtec engagement in bribery, lying about it, and resultant criminal investigation.

7th set, submitted June 27th, re: Environmental Justice (EJ), Environmental Injustice, Environmental Racism, Radioactive Racism.

8th set, submitted June 27th, re: the license for Private Fuel Storage, LLC, CISF -- targeted at Skull Valley Goshutes Indian Reservation in Utah -- is not terminated, contradicting NRC Staff assertions to the contrary.

9th set, submitted June 27th, re: Cerro Grande Fire exacerbates the environmental injustice of the Holtec CISF scheme.

10th set, submitted June 27th, re: NRC collusion with Holtec on CISF rubber-stamp is illegal, dangerous.

11th set, submitted verbally on June 23rd, viewable on pages 93 to 98 of NRC's official transcription (pages 94 to 99 of 205 on the PDF Counter).

12th set, submitted verbally on July 9th, viewable on pages 113 to 119 of NRC's official transcript (pages 114 to 120 of 177 on the PDF Counter), re: July 16ths that will live in nuclear infamy, in New Mexico (1945, the Trinity atomic "test" blast in the Tularosa Basin; 1979, the Church Rock uranium tailings pond dam breach that catastrophically contaminated the Rio Puerco River, the sole source readily available, used by Navajo/Diné shepherds for drinking water for their families, as well as water for their livestock; 2018, NRC's ghoulishly tone deaf official announcement launching the Holtec CISF licensing proceeding.)

13th set, submitted verbally on Aug. 20th, viewable on pages 38 to 43 (that's pages 39 to 44 of 58 on the PDF Counter) of NRC's official transcript.

14th set, submitted verbally on Aug. 25, viewable on pages 66 to 72, and page 115 to 120 (that's pages 68 to 74, and 113 to 118, of 129 on the PDF Counter).

15th and 16th sets, submitted verbally on Aug. 26, viewable on pages 29 to 33 (that's pages 31 to 35 of 69 on the PDF Counter), and on page 59 to 60 (which is pages 60 to 62 of 69 on the PDF Counter).

17th set; submitted Sept. 2nd (link to transcript of verbal version), re: Holtec's habitual bribery, its lying about it, and NRC's silent, passive complicity.

18th set; submitted Sept. 2nd (written version, with links to citations included), re: Holtec's habitual bribery, its lying about it, and NRC's silent, passive complicity.

19th set; submitted Sept. 3rd, re: Risks of  “Routine” or “Incident-Free” Shipments Nonetheless Being Like “Mobile X-ray Machines That Can’t Be Turned Off,” and Risks of Externally Contaminated Shipments.

20th set; submitted Sept. 5th; re: Mobile Chernobyl shipping risks.

21st set; submitted Sept. 9th; re: Risks of Loss of Institutional Control if De Facto Permanent, Surface Storage, Parking Lot Dumps are Abandoned, Containers Fail, and Release Catastrophic Amounts of Hazardous Radioactivity into the Environment.

22nd set; submitted Sept. 9th; re: Risk of De Facto Permanent, Surface Storage, Parking Lot Dump.

23rd set; submitted Sept. 9th; re: Stringent Criteria for a Highly Radioactive Waste Geologic Repository; 1,000+ organizations opposed to the Yucca dump targeted at Western Shoshone land in NV 

24th set; submitted Sept. 10th; re: Why Are These CISF Risks Being Taken? To Offload High-Level Radioactive Wastes' title (ownership) and liability on the backs of the public taxpayer.

25th set; submitted Sept. 12; re: the radioactive skeletons' in Holtec's and its partner SNC-Lavalin's closets.

26th set; submitted Sept. 21; re: NM does not consent; cumulative impacts; environmental racism; threats to cultural properties and historic sites; threats to water and wildlife; threats from transporting irradiated nuclear fuel; Holtec's project is illegal; Holtec's site is geologically unstable and unsuitable; Holtec's and NRC's assumption that Yucca Mountain, NV will become the permanent repository is bogus, baseless, erroneous, misleading, and outrageous.

27th set, submitted Sept. 22, re: Beyond Nuclear members'/supporters' comments opposing Holtec's CISF.

28th set, submitted Sept. 22, re: process and substance concerns with NRC's DEIS and its public comment proceeding verbal comment call-in sessions.

29th set, submitted Sept. 22, re: more process and substance concerns with NRC's DEIS and its public comment proceeding verbal comment call-in sessions.

30th set, submitted Sept. 22, re: a 113-organization coalition's comments on NRC's DEIS, in opposition to Holtec's CISF.

31st set, submitted Sept. 22, re: yet more process and substance concerns with NRC's DEIS and its public comment proceeding verbal comment call-in sessions.

32nd set, submitted Sept. 22, re: NISG "People's Hearing" verbal comments, transcribed and submitted by NISG on behalf of Beyond Nuclear.