[NukeNet] Old fashioned petition to the NRC -- NO more highly-enriched uranium for NFS until the company has safe operations!

[Linda Modica]

This is a case of truth being stranger than fiction.  Nuclear Fuel  
Services has been called the most dangerous nuclear facility in the  
country, and, prior to Three Mile Island, had had the worst accident  
at any US nuclear plant in US history. Then TMI's meltdown happened.   
Since then, NFS has had numerous accidents, losses of bomb-grade  
uranium and fires -- not to mention those "routine" releases of  
plutonium, uranium and thorium into the Nolichucky River, a resource  
for public drinking water systems downstream, as well as for rafters,  
paddlers, anglers, swimmers, etc.

Yet, the application for more bomb-grade uranium storage that NFS  
recently requested from the NRC has been granted -- BEFORE the public  
even had a chance to petition for a hearing.  As a result, NFS will  
have another 17.4 metric tons of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) to  
store at its Erwin, TN site.

Sure, we don't all really live in Tennessee.  Yet, we're all affected  
by NRC & DOE decisions on nuclear-industry matters.

In this case, rather than letting the bomb-grade uranium (from  
dismantled nuclear weapons) continue to be stored at federal sites  
that are isolated from the public, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) seems to  
be pushing this weapons material onto communities which are in close  
proximity to nuclear facilites.  That's the case with Erwin; homes  
are less than 1000 feet from NFS's property line.  Which is also why  
the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry called NFS an  
"indepterminent public health hazard".

Please support the people of Erwin by printing off copies of the  
attached petition, getting them signed, and sending them back to me  
at the address below.  If you can scan completed petitions and email  
the signatures back, that'll work too.

Thank you for helping Erwin confront the DOE-NRC-corporate nuclear  
CABAL.

It's time to take our power back!

Linda.

Linda C. Modica, Chair
Sierra Club Radiation Committee
266 Mayberry Road
Jonesborough, TN  37659
H: (423) 753-9697
C: (423) 676-2925
E: Linda.C.Modica at mac.com

"Radiation is like God -- you can't hide from it, and if you don't  
respect it, you'll be called to pay for your sins." ~~ former Nuclear  
Fuel Services employee quoted in "A big job for a little town", The  
Progressive, April 1981.




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