2013-10-07,09: NRC Meetings for Nuke Waste Comments Public Meeting Schedule - NRC: Public Involvement in [Nuclear] Waste Confidence
<< Monday, October 7 San Luis Obispo, California Courtyard by Marriott San Luis Obispo 1605 Calle Joaquin Road San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Open House - 6:00-7:00 p.m. PDT Meeting - 7:00-10:00 p.m. PDT Wednesday, October 9 Carlsbad, California Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa 5480 Grand Pacific Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 Open House - 6:00-7:00 p.m. PDT Meeting - 7:00-10:00 p.m. PDT >> < <http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/wcd/pub-involve.html#schedule>http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/wcd/pub-involve.html#schedule > - - - << Below are some suggested questions and comments for the meeting. A. Stop making nuclear wastes. 1. Without a scientifically proven solution for safely disposing of nuclear waste, we must stop making it. Clean, renewable sources of electricity are readily available and affordable, so there is no excuse for continuing to rely on nuclear power. 2. Waste Confidence is a Radioactive Con Game. The purpose of NRC's Waste Confidence rule is to streamline nuclear plant licensing by ignoring the million-year, multi-billion dollar problem of what to do with radioactive waste. The only problem Waste Confidence solves is how to permit nuclear plants to continue making this waste when there is no solution for it. 3. Obey the Court's Ban on Licensing Nuclear Reactors. There is no safe storage solution for nuclear waste, and NRC's new Waste Confidence policy is no more credible than the one the courts threw out. There is no safe dose of radiation, and to pursue licensing on the base of Waste Confidence is illegal and immoral. B. Accelerate the schedule for transferring spent fuel rods from overcrowded spent fuel pools into dry casks. 1. Diablo Canyon's spent fuel pools currently hold 5 times the amount of spent fuel for which it was designed. In addition, it is surrounded by 13 earthquake faults, 2 of which are designated as "major" and "active." 2. The pools are not protected by redundant emergency makeup and cooling systems or housed within robust containment structures having reinforced concrete walls several feet thick 3. Irradiated fuel casks can withstand environmental disasters that spent fuel pools cannot, as evidenced by the continued function of the dry casks at Fukushima. The casks survived the 9.0 quake and continue to protect the irradiated fuel, even though the tsunami flooded them. These containers have not exploded, are not on fire, are not catastrophically leaking, and do not require ongoing addition of liquid to cool. They are out-performing the pools on the site. 4. Dry casks have the advantage of passive cooling via airflow, making them less vulnerable to natural disaster and sabotage. 5. Spent fuel pools are attractive targets for terrorists. Many other suggestions for comments, compiled by organizations including Mothers for Peace nationwide are available at http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/wasteconfidence.htm >> < https://www.facebook.com/groups/406033089478492/permalink/521899941225139/ > ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
