NRC Nuclear Waste Confidence Hearing
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Open House 6PM / Meeting 7-10PM
Westchester Marriott, 670 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591 (map)
For decades the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said that it “had confidence” that there would be a solution for nation’s high level radioactive wastes “when needed”. Over the years, many of us have argued that having confidence is not the same as having a plan to deal with something that is deadly for 240,000 years.
In 2012, NYS Attorney General Schneiderman and others took the NRC to court; the “Waste Confidence” rule was overturned because the NRC has failed to demonstrate that the waste will be managed safely, and the NRC has not adequately considered the environmental impacts of additional waste that new and relicensed reactors would generate.
The NRC is now taking public comments at meetings across the country to formulate a new rule to address nuclear waste storage that will be issued in 2014. This hearing is critical for the future of fuel storage at Indian Point. Please take advantage of this opportunity to speak out about the high level radioactive waste stored at Indian Point. The NRC requests attendees register ahead of time by email WCRegistration@nrc.gov or call (301) 287-9392.
We need to be there in full force to demand that the plant not be relicensed and generate more of this deadly waste and that what is there already be moved to safer hardened dry cask storage on site.
Consider that …
… more than 2,000 tons of nuclear waste are stored on the banks of the Hudson River, just 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan.
… all of the fuel rods ever used are still there now, most of them sitting in two tightly racked, dangerously overcrowded, 40-foot deep pools of water. Only a small amount of the waste onsite is stored in dry cask storage silos.
… two of Indian Point’s waste pools have leaked carcinogenic isotopes into the groundwater and the Hudson River.
…the pools are vulnerable and housed in unprotected industrial buildings, not in hardened containment, as are the reactors.
…. all this radioactive waste stored on site and poses an imminent danger to the approximately 20 million people who live or work within 50 miles of the plant.
GET INVOLVED:
- Reach out to your contacts and groups and encourage them to attend.
- Send a note to your local elected officials asking them to attend.
- If you are part of a faith based community, ask for a statement from your religious leader.
- Write a letter to the editor to your local paper.
- Call any contacts you might have to make sure that they will be there on October 30.
Click here for more information about the Public Involvement in Waste Confidence meetings.
Click here to register for the October 30 Tarrytown Meeting
If you cannot attend the October 30 meeting, written comments can be submitted until Wednesday, November 27:
E-mail comments to: Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov, citing Docket ID No. NRC–2012–0246
Submit comments online at: www.regulations.gov using Docket ID No. NRC–2012–0246
Mail comments to: Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 ATTN: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Fax comments to: Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 301-415-1101, citing Docket ID No. NRC–2012–0246
Hand-deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Federal workdays; telephone 301-415-1677.
