EIS-0113_Section_9 - Hanford Site

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croee enation of Northw..terriers.
Thank you for this opportunity to express our views. -
very truly Your-,
F. Obarlasder. Chairman.
WIZAMAS Conservation Committee
JUL B 1988
WM DIVISION
2 July 1986
Jeff Boscole
3425 W.Lk.Sam.Rd.S.
Bellevue, WA 98008
(206) 746-85 7 3
RECEIVED DOE-RL
JUL B M
IYM DIVISION
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R.A. Holten/EIS, Waste Management Division A/L
DOE Richland Operations Office
Richland, WA 99352 re -- Draft EIS. Hanford haste
Dear R.A. Holten 8 Staff: -
The three-volume and summary set of the Draft EIS- Dispo 1 f Hanford
Defense H^h-j, I,.Tranuranic and Tank Faster, Aarcli M, prov 3es a
anterestrng an Comp re ans av overvi ew or t e tecnol... factors associated
with some considerations of radionucleotide storage at the Hanford site.
We are unconvinced the many fears have been adequately allayed. These
- include, but are not limited to, the •'pocketgophers," the "groundwater
contamination," the possibility of river flooding from major catastrophes
ranging from natural earthquake to rupture of the Grand Coulee Dam as
well as risks from geologic activity and/or volcanic eruption. These 3.5.6.35
and other h az ards strongly suggest that nuclear technology carries with
it many potential risks which would render the utilization of atomic
energy development unsuitable for consumption by those who subscribe to
high standards of ethical responsibility to the environmental es our ce
and to future generations of human beings. As a. consequence of this
ill-advised romance with nuclear technologies and of the warnings from
eminent scientists throughout several decades of investigation, we are
suspicious that the patterns for selective breeding will epitomize those
personality types who were motivated b y un controllable urges stemming
from ruthless genetic endowments, with little perspicacity or sensitivity
to cultural extenuations beyond mundane technocratic administrative
functionality and bureaucratism aligned with conformist redundance. If 5 e 5
the intent was to provide labor-saving leisure-time for an atomic economy,
I will remind the hearing examiners that "idle-hands breed the devils -
work." We are today witness to the devil's seduction of 'easy" money.
The report details some statistical calculations of "health effects,"
however, this phrase must be a misnomer. The word 'effect" means "to 4. 1 , 27
bringabout; accomplish; fulfill; produce or make," yet in the passages
which refer to "health effects" we are instead speaking of "ill. effects,"
correct? Nothing inherent or intrinsic to the nuclear indust ry , from
mining to processing to waste storage, suggests anything beneficial to