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– Barbara and Bud Cosper, Goliad residents who own property along the San Antonio River
A:That is not something we can answer at this point because we have not seen the design. The license application will contain that information and, from there, we will determine whether the water supply will be adequate.
– Victor Dricks, senior public affairs officer with the NRC
Q:How will the uranium mining affect the health and environment for the people here in Victoria?
– Leticia Ruiz, registered nurse
A:The NRC has strict regulations designed to protect the public’s health and safety. People living around the plant should not be affected by its operation.
– Victor Dricks, senior public affairs officer with the NRC
Q:Where is the waste going to go?
– Eve Bek, oncology nurse
A:As things stand now, all nuclear plants producing spent fuel are storing it on-site. The NRC is in the process of reviewing an application to create a repository to store the spent fuel at Yucca Mountain.
– Victor Dricks, senior public affairs officer with the NRC
Q:What is the earliest that we could expect an approval or denial of the license? Has there ever been a license that was applied for but denied?
– Peter Moralez, Victoria resident and writer for the Revista de Victoria
A:It will take an estimated four years. The acceptance review takes 60 days and, during that process, the NRC will evaluate the application to make sure it is complete and technically sufficient. After that comes a 30-month safety and environmental review process. Each application is a bit different. After that is a hearing process which takes about a year.
Since I’ve been working with new reactors, we have applications that have come in but we have not rejected any, so to speak. We have worked with the applicants to get what we needed before beginning the technical reviews.
– Mark Tonacci, NRC combined license project manager
Q:When was the last time any one of the more than 100 nuclear plants had a general emergency event or release of substances into the atmosphere?
– Refugio County Judge Rene Mascorro
A:There are four classifications regarding emergency events: Notification of an unusual event, an alert, site-area emergencies and general emergencies. I don’t keep an exact number, but unusual events come in at about 10, 20 or 30 a year. There may be a few area alerts, but there have only been one or two site-area emergencies I can recall in my 18 years in the industry. Other than Three-Mile Island, there has been no general emergency that I can recall.
– Dan Barss, emergency planning specialist with the NRC