[Sustain] Fwd: RE: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves to Senate

Tue May 15 16:39:56 PDT 2018

More info on HR 3053 from NIRS

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Subject: 	RE: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves 
to Senate
Date: 	Mon, 14 May 2018 23:44:26 +0000
From: 	Mary Olson <maryo at nirs.org>
To: 	

Don—THANK You for posting. I am not a subscriber to all the lists you 
copied (and are listed above)…only the NFC list.

Re: HR 3053 / the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act:

If folks are not on the Nuclear Information and Resource Service ALERT 
list, you might want to look back at some of the action-steps / 
background info. We don’t know what a Senate Bill would look like, but 
speaking against the bad provisions of HR 3053 is a good starting point.

NIRS ALERTS: https://www.nirs.org/alerts-rss/(there are a range of 
issues—but MANY on this waste bill).

Join the ALERT LIST (we will be working the Senate side):

http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=10277

If these provisions become law, it will allow the Dept of Energy to 
become owner of the largest pile of irradiated fuel on the planet, 
currently located in over 70 congressional districts, and on property 
belonging to some of the largest corporations in any state) and then 
ship it, as tax-payer property, to privately owned storage sites (each 
in only one congressional district) and then, well, probably effectively 
walk away…leaving one House Member and two Senators to worry about what 
happens next.

Alternately, AREVA will determine what happens next, since the French 
reprocessing giant loves plutonium separation, one can imagine a huge 
nuclear-welfare-program for the plutonium-based “Gen IV” reactors….or 
since it is now DOE / NNSA plutonium…hell, why not just send it off to 
NNSA Plutonium Land. (I know, I get a bit over the top about Plutonium—I 
have given 20+ years to the NIX MOX campaign…and am deeply offended to 
hear that NNSA / DOE want to take the MOX factory (at SRS) we fought 
long and hard and now convert it to a Plutonium PIT factory—the cores 
for thermonuclear weapons). Great.

Mary

Mary Olson

maryo at nirs.org <mailto:maryo at nirs.org>

NIRS Southeast www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org>

828-252-8409 / 828-242-5621 cell

*From:*nirs at sanonofre.com [mailto:nirs at sanonofre.com] *On Behalf Of 
*Louise Dunlap
*Sent:* Monday, May 14, 2018 12:53 PM
*To:* Don Eichelberger <done7777 at sbcglobal.net>
*Cc:* Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse <abalone at energy-net.org>; GPSF 
Sustainability Working Group <sustainability at sfgreens.org>; green issues 
working group <green-issues-wg at cagreens.org>; NFC Summit Group 
<nirs at sanonofre.com>
*Subject:* Re: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves 
to Senate

Thanks for giving voice to this hard news.  I wondered why this list was 
so silent on it.  There is one petition out there, but I trust there 
will be other concerted efforts.  Here it is 
https://secure.foodandwateraction.org/act/tell-senate-no-nuclear-waste-yucca-mountain

Louise D.

     On May 13, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Don Eichelberger
     <done7777 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:done7777 at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:

     Dear Everyone-

     The unthinkable happened on May 10th when House of Representatives
     passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision, HR 3015. Among other
     egregious things this bill would do is to privatize High Level
     Nuclear Waste storage:

     "This  title  also  authorizes  DOE to  enter  into  an  agreement
       with  a  non-Federal  entity  for  the  purposes of storing SNF
     (spent nuclear fuel) to which the Department holds title." (from
     bill Purpose and Summary)

     The bill also calls for forcing nuclear waste storage- at least
     interim- at Yucca Mountain.

     read the bill here:
     https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt355/CRPT-115hrpt355-pt1.pdf

     At this writing it has not been issued a Senate Bill number yet. It
     will most likely go to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
     Committee for debate and amendment.

     They can be contacted through
     https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home

     No telling if and when it will come to a floor vote, although I
     would think they'll try for sooner than later. Contact your senator
     early and often.

https://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_correspond_senators.htm

     Until it can be moved to one permanent location it is highly stupid
     to be moving this stuff around very much given the potential
     devastation of an accident or worse.

     Please do what you can to stop the stupids.

     Thanks,

     Don

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