NY ATTORNEY GENERAL CRITICIZES WASTE CONFIDENCE

New York’s attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s proposed Waste Confidence ruling due to its lack of site-specific analysis last night in a prepared statement given by an assistant attorney general at the NRC’s Waste Confidence meeting in Tarrytown, N.Y. “Attorney General Schneiderman led the successful challenge in 2012 to the Temporary Storage Rule because he believes that communities that serve as de facto long-term nuclear waste repositories deserve a full and detailed accounting of the environmental, public health, and safety risks,” assistant attorney general Janice Dean said. “Unfortunately, he believes that the Waste Confidence DGEIS, as presented, fails to provide such a full and detailed accounting, and therefore, fails our communities.” Schneiderman went onto say that the study was “significantly flawed” because of its inability to account a disaster in an area like Indian Point where 17 million people would be affected by the waste, compared to a generic site the NRC used in its study.