Nuclear Waste Confidence? NOT!

November 22nd, 2013

DATE: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

TIME: Open House: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (CST)
Meeting: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (CST)

LOCATION: Minneapolis Marriott Southwest
5801 Opus Parkway
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343
Lake of the Woods Meeting Room

SUBJECT: PUBLIC MEETING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS ON THE WASTE CONFIDENCE DRAFT GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND PROPOSED RULE

Prairie Island nuclear plant

That’s an old photo of Prairie Island, appropriate for an early winter day.  There is nuclear waste from the plant stored in casks just outside of the plant, and this whole nuclear compound is right next to the Mississippi River and the Prairie Island Indian Community.  Great… just great.  It’s just a couple miles upriver from us here in Red Wing, and it’s been incorporated into the City so the City could get utility personal property tax revenues, but that’s another can of worms for another day…

Nuclear Waste isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but it’s allowed to keep piling up, and the nuclear reactors are allowed to continue to generate electricity and waste, based on the “Nuclear Waste Confidence Decision,” which was first issued in 1984, and then revisited since, and it’s essentially myopia in action:

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A federal court didn’t buy the NRC’s policy:

NY v NRC-Nuclear Waste Confidence Decision 11-1045-1377720

So now they’re getting more public input into the rule.

NRC Nuclear Waste Confidence Page

What’s at issue now is the proposed Rule and the Environmental Impact Statement, and they’re soliciting comments on that EIS with the final due out about a year from now.  Here it is, and the EIS is BIG, 585 pages — yup, that’s what you’ve got to comment about (anything else will be tossed out and disregarded):

Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule_Proposed

Nuclear Waste GEIS

From the NRC’s page, the important documents/info:

So now it’s up to us to sort through all of this and explain why this is utterly insane policy… New York managed to get through to the federal court, so it isn’t hopeless.  But the NRC’s persistence in its “Nuclear Waste Confidence” is inexplicable.

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