NRC Nuke Waste CON meeting Oct. 30 in Tarrytown: info here

6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; nirsnet@nirs.org; www.nirs.org

New York: You're up!

NRC Waste CONfidence meeting, Tarrytown, NY
Wednesday, October 30, 2003

Pack the meeting: No confidence in NRC Radwaste Policy
Make the reactor licensing and relicensing moratorium permanent.

October 24, 2014

Dear Friends,

With the government shutdown over, NRC is resuming its 12-meeting cross country tour to sell its discredited radioactive "waste confidence" policy.

We're not buying, we hope you're not either.

New York and surrounding states, You're Up! Your meeting is Wednesday, October 30 at the Westchester Marriott, 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591. There will be an open house from 6-7 pm, meeting itself, with opportunity for you to speak out, will be 7-10 pm.

You can pre-register by Oct 27th to speak here. However, pre-registration is not required (though it does put you at the front of the line) and you will be able to speak your piece regardless. So please do. Bring signs and banners. Make clear to the NRC--and to the American people--that there is no public confidence in U.S. radioactive waste policy, and no need for more radioactive waste to be generated.

NRC wants to legalize its alleged "confidence" that nuclear waste will have no significant environmental impacts even though it remains radioactive for literally millions of years and there is no permanent waste repository in sight. The NRC claims temporary storage methods--whether onsite or offsite in some waste canister parking lot--are good enough to last indefinitely. We are calling it a CON Job or Hearing of NO Confidence on Nuclear Waste.

A federal court didn't buy NRC's original waste confidence rule, since it was predicated on the assumption that a permanent repository would be operational soon. And the court said the NRC had no technical basis to assume temporary storage methods (fuel pools and dry casks) are adequate to indefinite, potentially permanent, storage. The court's decision forced the NRC to implement a moratorium on issuing new reactor construction licenses and all license renewal decisions.

The NRC's new document is deeply flawed; it was slapped together quickly in order to allow licensing to resume. It does not instill any confidence in radioactive waste policy.



Check NIRS regularly updated waste confidence website for talking points, links to key documents, organizing materials and more: http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/wasteconfidence.htm

More talking points from Sierra Club: http://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/sites/content.sierraclub.org.activistnetwork/files/teams/documents/Talking%20Points.pdf

NRC wants to put into the regulations (10 CFR 51) once and for all that high level nuclear waste will never have significant environmental impacts. That way no one could legally raise these concerns or intervene when reactors go for license extensions or when new reactor licenses are proposed. By assuming the chances of a disaster are low, NRC says it can ignore enormous consequences from fires or other disasters that could spread massive amounts of radiation around the globe. Come to Tarrytown October 28th and SAY NO!

Please RSVP: Contact Diane D'Arrigo at NIRS if you can be there and for any questions about the meeting, mobilizing, etc. dianed@nirs.org 301-270-6477 x 15. Local coordinator including buses and carpooling: Marilyn Elie eliewestcan@gmail.com, 914-739-6164.

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Thanks for all you do.

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
www.nirs.org
nirsnet@nirs.org

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