[CSRA Peace] FW: [aikenpeace] ALERT! MOX Public Hearing on Plutonium TONITE N. Augusta

Tue Aug 17 12:57:00 EDT 2010

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From: aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com [mailto:aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Glenn Carroll
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:02 AM
To: NO NEW NUKES Y'ALL!; SRS Action; NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH ~ Georgia; WAND
Nukes; aikenpeace at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [aikenpeace] ALERT! MOX Public Hearing on Plutonium TONITE N.
Augusta
Importance: High

Hi y'all,

Please come out for a rare public hearing on plutonium disposition, speak on
the public record about the MOX plutonium fuel boondoggle currently under
construction at Savannah River Site to the tune of a half BILLION tax
dollars per year.

The MOX plutonium fuel boondoggle is in its 15th year and the MOX factory,
though already under construction, remains only 75 percent designed, without
a finalized waste plan, without plans for plutonium accounting and security.
There are no reactors signed up for the fuel, and no production quality
plutonium even available for the program in the 13 to 16 tons of junk
plutonium dumped into storage in the defunct K reactor at SRS.

The current supplement to the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Environmental
Impact Statement is looking for comments on: 
~ use of four TVA commercial reactors (Browns Ferry, BWR, and Sequoyah, PWR
ice condenser); 
~ building a Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility in the K reactor at
SRS;
~ several plutonium immobilization options at SRS; 
~ issues of waste disposal at WIPP in New Mexico; and 
~ plutonium manufacture at Los Alamos, also in New Mexico. 

You may choose to comment on any of these aspects of the supplemental EIS,
or comment on failures of the MOX plutonium disposition program to-date and
advocate for the preferred alternative, plutonium immobilization in
vitrified high-level radioactive waste program at SRS.

The U.S. Department of Energy hearing starts at 5:30 TONITE, and runs until
8:00 (or whenever, the Decatur Alabama hearing went til 9:30) at the new
North Augusta Municipal Center right on Georgia Ave (13th Street Bridge from
Augusta Riverwalk District), 100 Georgia Ave, N. Augusta, SC. 

We had great hearings up in Alabama and Chattanooga Tennessee two weeks ago,
very few voices for MOX (none at all in Chattanooga) and a wide range of
informed comment from local activists.

Federal Register notice is below. Come on out and STOP THE MOX BOONDOGGLE!

Read more about plutonium: http://www.nonukesyall.org/plutonium.html

If you wish to send written comments, the addresses and deadline are listed
below.

NIX MOX!
Glenn

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-- 
Glenn Carroll, Coordinator
NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH

P.O. Box 8574  ~  Atlanta, GA 31106  ~  404-378-4263 
cell: 404-432-8727 ~ atom.girl at mindspring.com

http://www.nonukesyall.org

------ Forwarded Message
DOE:  "Amended Notice of Intent to Modify the Scope of the Surplus 

Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and 

Conduct Additional Public Scoping"

text:  http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-17519.htm

pdf:  http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-17519.pdf

[Federal Register: July 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 137)]

[Notices]               

[Page 41850-41853]

>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

[DOCID:fr19jy10-53]                         

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Amended Notice of Intent to Modify the Scope of the Surplus 

Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and 

Conduct Additional Public Scoping

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security 

Administration.

ACTION: Amended Notice of Intent.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its intent to 

modify the scope of the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (SPD Supplemental EIS, DOE/EIS-0283-S2) 

and to conduct additional public scoping. DOE issued its Notice of 

Intent \1\ (NOI) to prepare the SPD Supplemental EIS on March 28, 2007 

(72 FR 14543). DOE now intends to revise the scope of the SPD 

Supplemental EIS to refine the quantity and types of surplus weapons-

usable plutonium material, evaluate additional alternatives, and no 

longer consider in detail one alternative identified in the NOI 

(ceramic can-in-canister immobilization). Also, DOE had identified a 

glass can-in-canister immobilization approach as its preferred 

alternative in the NOI; DOE will continue to evaluate that alternative 

but currently does not have a preferred alternative.

etc..............

hearing dates:

DATES: DOE invites Federal agencies, state and local governments, 

Native American tribes, industry, other organizations, and members of 

the public to submit comments to assist in identifying environmental 

issues and in determining the scope of the SPD Supplemental EIS. The 

public scoping period will end on September 17, 2010. DOE will consider 

all comments received or postmarked by September 17, 2010. Comments 

received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable. 

Also, DOE asks that Federal, state, and local agencies that desire to 

be designated cooperating agencies on the SPD Supplemental EIS contact 

the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Document Manager at the 

addresses listed under Addresses by the end of the scoping period. DOE 

will hold five public scoping meetings:

     August 3, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Calhoun Community 

College, Decatur Campus, Aerospace Building, 6250 Highway 31 North, 

Tanner, AL 35671

     August 5, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Chattanooga 

Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402

     August 17, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at North Augusta 

Municipal Center, 100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, SC 29841

     August 24, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Best Western 

Stevens Inn, 1829 S. Canal Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220

     August 26, 2010 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) at Courtyard by 

Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507

ADDRESSES: Please direct written comments on the scope of the SPD 

Supplemental EIS to Ms. Sachiko McAlhany, SPD Supplemental EIS NEPA 

Document Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, P.O. Box 2324, Germantown, 

MD 20874-2324. You may also send comments on the scope of the SPD 

Supplemental EIS via e-mail to spdsupplementaleis at saic.com, or via the 

Web site, http://www.spdsupplementaleis.com
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log
=linklog&to=http://www.spdsupplementaleis.com>
<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&amp
;log=linklog&to=http://www.spdsupplementaleis.com> ; or by toll-free fax
to 

877-865-0277               877-865-0277       DOE will give equal weight to
written, e-mail, 

fax, and 

oral comments. Questions regarding the scoping process and requests to 

be placed on the distribution list for this Supplemental EIS should be 

directed to

[[Page 41851]]

Ms. McAlhany by any of the means given above or by calling toll-free 

877-344-0513              877-344-0513      .

etc.......

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