Nuclear Dry Cask at PI – Comments on SEIS due TODAY!
March 3rd, 2022
Here’s the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement:
Draft-SEIS-Notice-Prairie-Island-2.1.22
Xcel Energy still refuses to disclose the dry casks it wants to use, and yes, they probably won’t order them until there’s a permit to do it, but when Orano folks show up at the Dept. of Commerce-EERA meeting, both Roger Maggi, the Chief Communications Officer, and their Chief Engineer, Jack Beshoin (?) of recently NRC licensed “Interim Storage Partners, LSP” in Texas, odds are pretty good it’s a Orano/TN product, eh?
Here are docs from the NRC on the Texas licensing, note that the Texas license does NOT include use of TN-40 or TN-40HT casks, AND another FYI, Texas has pass law to disallow this “interim” storage:
Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI
Accession Number: ML21188A096
Date Released: Monday, September 13, 2021
- ML21188A097 – Transmittal Letter, Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21188A098 – License Preamble, Interim Storage Partners, Issuance of Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21188A099 – Materials License SNM-2515, Interim Storage Partners, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (3 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21188A100 – Technical Specifications, Interim Storage Partners, Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (38 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21188A101 – Public Final Safety Evaluation Report, Interim Storage Partners, Materials License SNM-2515, WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility ISFSI (36 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21222A214 – Record of Decision Interim Storage Partners LLC License Application for a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, Andrews County, Texas (6 page(s), 9/13/2021)
- ML21193A097 – Federal Register Notice for WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Record of Decision and Issuance of Part 72 Materials License SNM-2515 (7 page(s), 9/13/2021)
OK, back to work!
January 6th House Select Committee’s Brief in Opposition to Plaintiff John Eastman’s Privilege Assertions
March 2nd, 2022

This is just too good – John C. Eastman gets roasted, and repeatedly they say the Select Committee has good-faith reason to believe that Trump and Company committed various crimes, LIKE WOW! By the time you get 1/2 way through this you’ll be snortin’ and hootin’ and hollerin’ — I’ve been waiting so long to start seeing these assertions!
YES!!
CONGRESSIONAL DEFENDANTS’ BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S PRIVILEGE ASSERTIONS
Minn. R. ch 7849 & 7850 Rulemaking? DEAD!
March 1st, 2022

Over nine years, and how many of those years going to St. Paul for meetings, how many hours of editing and commenting, of group meetings to go over changes, proposed suggestions, meaningful public participation…

Well, here’s the Minnesota Public FUtilities Commission in action:

