Citizen's Just Say 'NO' to Nuke Dump - Roswell Excerpts 3
Channel: eon3
Date: 2018-05-19

Holtec International is supplying the hi-level radioactive waste dry storage system on the beach for California’s San Onofre.  Holtec has now joined forces with a group of New Mexico local politicians and businesspeople  calling themselves the Eddy-Lea Alliance to propose a national high-level nuclear waste ‘interim storage’ site just outside Hobbs, New Mexico.  

If licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),the site would be the first in a proposed chain of Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS) facilities across the country that would temporarily house the waste from the country’s coming cascade of nuclear reactor closings, until some hoped-for time in the future when a rebooted Yucca Mountain central repository would open.  It would  also potentially be the destination for San Onofre’s waste, should it ever be moved - from one Holtec site to another.

Noting that the proposed Holtec site will be designed to eventually hold more waste than Yucca Mtn.’s projected capacity, critics are suggesting that, if opened before Yucca, the Holtec-Eddy-Lea site could well become the country’s de facto permanent national dumpsite.

The NRC is holding ‘scoping hearings’ around New Mexico to collect public comments. 

This is the third segment of excerpts from the April 30, 2018 NRC meeting in Roswell, New Mexico.

For more info:
Facebook.com/HaltHoltec
NoNuclearWasteAqui.org
nuclearnewmexico.com
sric.org
SeedCoalition.org
NIRS.org
BeyondNuclear.org/centralized-storage