Public comments opposing Holtec's high-level rad. waste dump targeting New Mexico urgently needed by Sept. 22nd!

As announced by the NRC:

The public may submit written comments on the draft EIS before September 22, 2020. [The deadline had been July 22nd, but has been extended by two months.]  A notice published in the Federal Register (FR) on April 27, 2020 (85 FR 23382; https://www.federalregister.gov/), announced the availability of the NRC’s draft EIS and provided instructions for submitting written comments.

The draft EIS can be found on the NRC public webpage for the Holtec CISF license application at https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/cis/holtec-international.html.  If you do not have internet access, contact the NRC Public Document Room at 800-397-4209 for assistance.

[Please see the links below for sample comments you can use to write your own, instructions on how to submit them to NRC by the Sept. 22nd deadline, and additional action you can take to stop the environmental racist, highly dangerous, and even unnecessary Holtec International/Eddy Lea Energy Alliance irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) dead in its tracks!]

Update on July 1, 2020 by admin

Holtec DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC

Update on July 1, 2020 by admin

Speak out against Mobile Chernobyls in your community! Sample script for contacting your Members of Congress to urge they demand public comment meetings in your state/district re: NRC Draft EIS on Holtec's nuke waste Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

7/8/20: Beyond Nuclear on Radio Sputnik's "Loud & Clear"

#News, #energy, #environment, #nuclear, #regulation, #safety

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

The cost of saving lives vs. the cost of destroying them

A new video from Pax Christi.

Guest column: New Mexico nuclear facility is bad news

By Judy Treichel of Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, published in the Las Vegas Sun.

Could states allow high radiation levels before evacuating during a nuclear emergency in pandemic conditions?

Beyond Nuclear has decried the suppression of state assessments that could reveal plans to drastically raise the threshhold of radiation exposure before evacuating the public from a nuclear emergency under COVID-19 conditions. Beyond Nuclear pointed to a document from the state of Connecticut, (which was posted and then removed by the NRC, without explanation), indicating the state would wait to evacuate some people until radiation levels reached a staggering 100 rem, the point at which radiation sickness can begin. Beyond Nuclear demanded, in a press release, that NRC and FEMA make public the response from every state to FEMA's assessment of the viability of offsite radiological emergency plans for operating nuclear power stations during the COVID-19 pandemic. FEMA continues to insist the plans are "adequate" even though Connecticut stated that the social distancing requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic posed “a significant impediment to an orderly evacuation”. Read the full press release.