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July 19, 2012

Spent fuel - what was sold to the public as a temporary storage measure is now being repackaged as "extended storage"

The following is an excerpt from Prairie Island Indian Community's comments on a draft NRC report:

"When the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) at Prairie Island (PINGP) was initially proposed in the early 1990s, it was to be a temporary measure to keep the plant running and plant personnel working until Yucca Mountain could be opened. Our tribe and others expressed concerns about the long-term storage of spent fuel in dry casks and the possibility that the waste would never leave Prairie Island. We were assured that the ISFSI was to be an interim or temporary solution until the national geologic repository at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting waste. We doubt that the State of Minnesota would have approved PINGP's ISFSI if commissioners and legislators and members of the public had known that the waste would be on-site for more than 200 years as the NRC discusses in its Waste Confidence Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) report, let alone the 300-year 'analytical' time period this Draft Report uses."

Source: Philip R. Mahowald (General Counsel - Prairie Island Indian Community), "PIIC comments on the draft report, 'Identification and Prioritization of the Technical Information Needs Affecting Potential Regulation of Extended Storage and Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel', July 3, 2012

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