[NukeNet] Sign-on for extension to comment on Italian radwaste import to US

[Michael Mariotte]

DRAFT FOR SIGN ON BY FRIDAY FEB 22 dianed at nirs.org 301 270 6477 x 16

 

Office of the Secretary

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Washington, DC 20555

 

 
February 22, 2008 ??

Dear Office of the Secretary,

 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is currently considering applications
(Nos. IW023 and XW013, Federal Register Volume 73, Number 28, 2/11/08)
from EnergySolutions for import/export licenses that would bring 20,000
tons, 1 million cubic feet, 600,000,000,000,000 becquerels of
radioactive waste (mainly from Italian nuclear power and related
industries) into the US for processing including incineration, transport
and disposal. 

 

Our organizations request a 90-day extension on the time period to
request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene and for public
comment.

 

In terms of volume, the application appears to allow close to all of the
Italian "low and intermediate" level nuclear waste inventory to be
brought to the US through US ports, on US roads, rails and/or waterways
for processing in Tennessee and dumping either in Tennessee or at the
licensed nuclear dump in Utah. 

 

The activities of the nuclear waste processors in Tennessee, including
EnergySolutions, which release some nuclear waste into regular solid
waste trash dumps and into recycling streams, currently are being
questioned and challenged in that state.

 

Importing such massive amounts of nuclear waste for transport and
processing could affect the ability to manage our own country's growing
amounts nuclear waste. 

 

Because of the 

-->unprecedented large amounts of waste and radioactivity involved, 

-->potential impact on ports, transport routes, communities with
processors and those downwind and downstream; 

-->increased potential for radioactive materials deregulated via
EnergySolutions to get into commerce or unregulated waste facilities;

-->newness of the information to many potentially affected parties and
communities;

-->potentially disproportionate impact on communities of color and low
income communities in several of the directly affected states, 

 

we call for an extension on the comment, hearing and intervention
request period for the EnergySolutions import/export licenses for
Italian nuclear waste.

 

Sincerely

 

Diane D'Arrigo

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

 

 

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