<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<p><br>
</p>
<br>
This is a chance to comment on the moving of Nuclear Waste into communities, which is scary in the transport and storage of these materials.<br>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%">
<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> nirsnet=nirs.org@mail.salsalabs.net <nirsnet=nirs.org@mail.salsalabs.net> on behalf of Nuclear Information and Resource Service <nirsnet@nirs.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> annxpress@live.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Midwest, GA, CA: Take Action. Participate. Tell DOE what "consent" to accept nuclear waste means to you.</font>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div>
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7%2BIA52mS5XG3klyg5y6KRp5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq"></a><img width="558" height="55" alt="" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/images/titlebar2(1).gif"></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><img width="558" height="102" alt="web banner" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/images/generaltop.jpg"><br>
<span style="font-size:x-small">6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477;
</span><span style="font-size:smaller"><a href="mailto:nirsnet@nirs.org"><span style="font-size:x-small">nirsnet@nirs.org</span></a><span style="font-size:x-small">;
</span><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PKPeyz3KyOzPeWuygQ%2FFV55WQ3z%2BN%2BAq"><span style="font-size:x-small">www.nirs.org</span></a></span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<h2 style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Midwest, Georgia, California:<br>
Take Action. Participate. Tell DOE what "consent" to accept nuclear waste means to you.</b></span></h2>
<p><br>
<span style="font-size:larger">March 22, 2016<br>
<br>
Dear Friends, <br>
<br>
What would it take for you to consent to accept nuclear waste in your region? The Department of Energy (DOE) wants to know.<br>
<br>
DOE will be holding 8 public meetings across the country, and taking written comments, on the concept of “consenting” to accept high-level radioactive waste.<br>
<br>
After decades of trying to force-feed the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear dump down the throats of Nevadans and the Western Shoshone Nation, the DOE and nuclear proponents now want to know what it will take to get people to “consent,” or at least appear to
consent, to take nuclear waste in their communities.<br>
<br>
DOE acknowledges this is also “consent” to future nuclear waste production as part of the “integrated waste management system.” It says that the future of nuclear energy in this country depends on this.<br>
<br>
<b>We encourage you to attend and speak out at the meeting closest to you. If you can't attend a meeting, we encourage you to submit your own comments with your own thoughts on this issue. Details on how to do this are below.</b><br>
<br>
DOE seeks public input on how to be fair, who to include in the consent process, on what resources it will take to induce community participation in the nation's radioactive waste program.<br>
<br>
It wants to identify who adequately represents a community and will consent to take nuclear waste on its behalf. But although it has reports, diagrams of storage containers and systems, and ideas and plans for the tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste
in this country, DOE is not defining exactly what or how much nuclear waste a community would be consenting or not consenting to accept. It is, of course, impossible to consent to a project for which the basic parameters of the project are unknown.
<br>
<br>
<b>DOE is not asking how a community can refuse to consent, nor to express permanent “non-consent,” although you can certainly give them some ideas on that if you choose to.</b><br>
<br>
The DOE process is intended to seek a means of establishing consent for both permanent and "interim" radioactive waste storage concepts. But since an "interim" radwaste dump could easily become a de facto permanent site, what does consent to a "temporary" storage
concept really mean?<br>
<br>
<b>No consideration of the rights or consent of those along radioactive waste transport routes is being made or requested</b>. Although one of the greatest dangers to the most people, environments and ecosystems is the movement of tens of thousands of tons
of nuclear waste on roads, rails and waterways, DOE stated at its Washington DC ‘kickoff’ meeting that there is complete federal preemption over transport of nuclear waste so that would not be part of the process.<br>
<br>
There is no mechanism for consideration of the rights of future generations that inevitably would be affected.<br>
<br>
The nuclear industry is eager for volunteers or consenting communities to take the waste off its hands and for DOE to take title to it. As long as the lethal waste remains on its property, the reactor owners own it.<br>
<br>
<b>Commenting:</b><br>
We encourage everyone to submit your own thoughts on these issues to DOE. </span>
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5bwx%2B%2BcZBhJmr63k4J3Bup5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq"><span style="font-size:larger">Click here to read a Federal Register notice</span></a><span style="font-size:larger"> that explains more about DOE's request for
public comment on these issues. There is also information </span><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dK3ye12CT6y4BqB6tUkI9Z5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq"><span style="font-size:larger">on this DOE website</span></a><span style="font-size:larger">. NIRS
soon will post information and sample comments on the Stop Fukushima Freeways section of our website. We also will be setting up an Action Page that will enable you to use or edit those sample comments and send them directly to DOE.<br>
<br>
In the meantime, to comment on the issue, please send an email to </span><a href="mailto:consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov"><span style="font-size:larger">consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:larger">. Please include “Response to IPC”
in the subject line. Comment deadline is July 31, 2016.<br>
<br>
<b>Participation:</b><br>
<br>
DOE Consent Meetings <br>
<br>
Here is information on the first three DOE consent meetings. There will be at least five more. We will be providing more information on those as their date approaches.
<b>We encourage as many people as possible to attend and participate in these meetings.<br>
</b><br>
<b>CHICAGO, IL</b>, March 29, 2016, 1-6 PM, University of Chicago Conference Center Gleacher Center, 450 N. City Front Plaza<br>
Illinois' Nuclear Energy Information Service will be holding a planning and prep session for the Chicago meeting on Wednesday, March 23, 7-9 p.m., NEIS Office, 3411 W. Diversey, Chicago. Please RSVP your intention to come for planning purposes. (773)342-7650;
neis@neis.org <br>
<br>
<b>ATLANTA, GA</b>, April 11, 2016, 1-6 PM, Georgia Tech Conference Center Hotel and Conference Center, 800 Spring Street N.W. Atlanta, GA 30308<br>
<br>
<b>SACRAMENTO, CA</b>, April 26, 2016 (Chernobyl anniversary), 5-9:30PM, Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, 300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814<br>
<br>
<br>
You can contact </span><a href="mailto:dianed@nirs.org"><span style="font-size:larger">Diane D'Arrigo</span></a><span style="font-size:larger"> or
</span><a href="mailto:maryo@nirs.org"><span style="font-size:larger">Mary Olson</span></a><span style="font-size:larger"> at NIRS for more information about the other meetings and the issue generally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:larger">Diane D'Arrigo<br>
Radioactive Waste Project Director<br>
Nuclear Information and Resource Service<br>
dianed@nirs.org</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:larger"><b>Stay Informed:</b><br>
<br>
<b>NIRS on the web</b>: <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3MWH2VqVUJ3TbGTkRLv0255WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">
http://www.nirs.org</a></span><br>
<br>
<b>GreenWorld</b>: (NIRS' blog chronicling nuclear issues and the transition to a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system)
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W3U3iJb6o2YDjfpY1h%2Bm%2FZ5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">
http://www.safeenergy.org</a><br>
<br>
<b>NIRS on Facebook:</b><br>
<br>
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4lQ4EiBf83aAs5zynBWagJ5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuclear-Information-and-Resource-Service/26490791479?sk=wall&filter=12</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MUEikFm9vRavoFAemdAahZ5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">http://www.facebook.com/nonukesnirs</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7XFol6Oe6a08hc%2Fueo%2FRu55WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">http://www.facebook.com/groups/nukefreeclimatefreemarch/</a><br>
<br>
<b>NIRS on Twitter:</b> <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zqdimKcX28g10QHY056mTp5WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">
http://twitter.com/#!/nirsnet</a><br>
<br>
<b>NIRS on YouTube:</b> <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S8ex5w8Uw5mKW9AMyHATg55WQ3z%2BN%2BAq">
http://www.youtube.com/user/nirsnet</a><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:small">Please note: NIRS never sells, rents, trades, or otherwise makes our e-mail lists available to other organizations or individuals for any reason. If you would like to unsubscribe to NIRS list,
</span><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FzYsYaSimATC0lb%2BFXlHmC79Wd5teNUy"><span style="font-size:small">click here to unsubscribe</span></a><span style="font-size:small">.</span></p>
<div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.salsalabs.com/?email"><img alt="empowered by Salsa" border="0" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="https://hq.salsalabs.com/salsa/images/SALSA_empowered_180x50_2.png"></a></div>
<img width="1" height="1" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=2749262861"></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>