Petition to consider new and significant information on the environmental impacts of high-density pool storage

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace among 34 organizations demanding the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission consider new and significant information on the environmental impacts of high-density pool storage.

For immediate release: July 2, 2014

CONTACTS:
Linda Seeley, Spokesperson
Jane Swanson, Spokesperson

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP) is among 34 organizations filing an amended rulemaking petition on June 26, 2014.  The amended petition supplements the rulemaking petition filed on February 18, which asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revise its environmental analysis of “spent” fuel storage impacts based on new and significant information generated in the NRC’s Expedited Spent Fuel Transfer proceeding.  In that proceeding, the NRC admitted for the first time how devastating the impacts of a pool fire could be, i.e., thousands of square miles contaminated, millions of people relocated.  It also conceded that transferring spent fuel from high-density pools to dry storage could be a cost-effective mitigative measure.  The 34 organizations, represented by SLOMFP attorney Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein of Emory Law School, argue that this information must be considered before licensing or re-licensing any nuclear reactors.

See the Amended Petition  at http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/atreactorstorage/2014-06-26amendedpetitionforrulemaking.pdf