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R. A. Holten/EIS
U.S. Department of Energy
Richland Operations Office
P. O. Box 550
Richland, We.
Dear Hr. Holten•
P. O. Box 462
Shaw Island
Washington 98286
July 22, 1986
Enclosed is a copy of my remark. at the hearing
of your department on July 15th, afte rnoon
session,at. the Federal Building in Seattle.
It is my hope that the public outcry and concern
about the disposal of nuclear waat.. will prompt
rethinking and a totally new assessment of both
siting the present supply of wastes, the techniques
C of storage and, at importantly, the stopping of
.6 productio of n-. materials we .imply a reunable to
handle with safety to the Earth or its creatures.
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Comment. by Frederick E. Ellis, Ph.D.
RECE L OL^GRL
Public Hearing, Seattle, We.
U.S. Department of JUL 2? 1986
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Energy
July ner 1986
WM DIVISION
2-5 p.m.
Federal Bldg.
The study of history, if nothing else, shows the great
contributions of man as well as his unbelievably stupid
mistakes. In something over ai.-thousand years of recorded
history we have reached surely the zenith of
insanity - churning out vast quantities of highly
toxic nuclear waste under the guise of 'defense' against
the bogey-man of the Soviet Union; a nation, like our
own financially broke and whose populace, like ours,
has no wish for war. Slowly, I thick, the body politic
in this country is getting on to this myth without which
the output of nuclear weapons would grind to a halt.
The deception of the public. by the military and the
Department of Energy is as mind-boggling as it is
self-defeating.
Reading the Environmental Impact Statement, a threevolume
compendium of .turgid prose and highly technical
data stretches to the breaking point one's patience.
The glaring omissions are evident and have already been
dealt with by pz vio.. speakers. Noteworthy 1s the
Alice-in-Wonderland approach to the issue of the siting
of nuclear waste: As the Nock-turtle obse rv ed, 'You are
guilty, now let'e have the tri.11- Now the Department of
Energy is telling us, -We have selected the site and the
th ree alternative. method. of disposal; now let'. hold
a public hearings' This procedure is a betrayal of
public confidence..
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Presently accumulated waste at be disposed of ae
prudently as the best scientific talent can devise
accompanied by total ...nation of the production of
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