(POSTED 6\/11\/07)<\/b><\/p>\n
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released for public comment a report that concludes there is little risk of a terrorist attack on the proposed Honolulu irradiator jeopardizing public health or the environment.<\/p>\n
The document is an appendix to the environmental assessment for the facility that the NRC published last year. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ordered the appendix on terrorist attacks, agreeing with contentions by Concerned Citizens of Honolulu, which opposes the irradiator, that the EA did not sufficiently address the issue.<\/p>\n
David Henkin, the attorney with Earthjustice who represents the group, criticized the appendix, saying it \u201cdoesn\u2019t do what it says it does.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s supposed to be some meat on the bones \u2013 something that gives people confidence that the NRC actually analyzed the potential of various events\u2026 Conclusory statements don\u2019t provide the disclosure of the process, the thinking process, the agency engaged in to satisfy NEPA requirements not only to educate the agency, but also public officials and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
A copy of the document is available at http:\/\/www.nrc.gov\/materials.html<\/b><\/a> Follow the link to \u201cPa`ina irradiator\u201d under Key Topics. Comments will be accepted through July 9.<\/p>\n Last month, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board again rebuked NRC staff, ordering it to explain to the board how it arrived at the conclusion that, in the case of the Pa`ina Hawai`i application, there were \u201cno extraordinary and unique circumstances calling for additional analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Board is at a loss to understand how the Staff on the one hand \u2026 concedes the admissibility of intervenor [Concerned Citizens\u2019] Safety Contention 13 and, on the other hand, in its May 21 response to our questions, insists that no safety review was performed regarding aircraft crash probabilities and consequences nor is any such review required.\u201d The NRC staff was also instructed to explain how it can now claim \u201cthat the Commission\u2019s safety regulations effectively bar consideration of aircraft crashes.\u201d The NRC staff response was due on June 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (POSTED 6\/11\/07) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released for public comment a report that concludes there is little risk of a terrorist attack on the proposed Honolulu irradiator jeopardizing public health or the environment. The document is an appendix to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-7043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eh-xtra","tag-patricia-tummons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}