SRS Watch letter of October 12, 2016 to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the proposal of the “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Group” to consolidate spent fuel from South Carolina reactors, with the goal to reprocess it is linked here. The letter and lengthy attachments was mailed to the NRC today.
While consolidation of spent fuel at the old Barnwell site would do nothing to get spent fuel removed from the state, reprocessing, which nobody wants and which government will not pay for, would guarantee a huge volume of liquid waste would be left behind. If you think it sounds like nuclear dumping you’d be correct.
News release of September 27, 2016 by SRS Watch, South Carolina League of Women Voters & the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club against the consolidated spent fuel storage scheme linked here – news article on the matter are to the right and in the SRS Watch letter linked here.
Meanwhile, a top SCE&G official confirmed to SRS Watch on October 12 that they had never heard of the “Spent Fuel Reprocessing Group” (SFR Group) or the proposal.