Environmental Impact Statement - radioactive monticello

Appendix A
CHIP CAMERON: All right. Great. Okay. Well, I would just thank all of you for attending. And
I'm going to ask Rani if she wants to make any final comments, Rani Franovich. (Response.)
Okay. She's fine. And the staff, NRC staff will be here after the meeting for informal
discussion, and including Ms. Quinly. And we'll be here tonight if anybody wants to join us
again. And once again, we do have our Safety Project Manager here with us, so if there's any
questions on the safety side or whatever, Dan is here. And I would just thank you, and we're
adjourned and we'll be back tonight. Great.
(Whereupon, at 2:35 p.m. the proceedings were adjourned.)
A.3.2 Transcript of Evening Public Meeting on March 22, 2006, in Monticello,
Minnesota
[Introduction by Chip Cameron]
[Presentation by Rani Franovich]
[Presentation by Crystal Quinly]
[Presentation by Robert Palla]
GEORGE CROCKER: Thank you, Chip. In my experience environmental impact statements
are usually decision-informing documents. What I've reviewed is a rationalization for a decision
that's already made.
B-1 I realize there's nothing I can do or say to make this better, because I don't think you care. So
this is sort of a fool's errand that I'm on; and not really liking being a fool, I'm going to make it
short.
Your significance levels-small, moderate, large-appallingly subjective. Rational people
looking at the same facts could come to dramatically different conclusions about what's small,
about what's moderate, about what's large.
Small means not detectable, not noticeable By whom Using what
B-2 Let's just look at how we monitor for radiation releases as an example. Acknowledging that the
radionuclides are released, where do they go You haven't a clue. Your monitoring doesn't tell
you where'they go. Your monitoring says where you don't find them, but you're not looking for
where they are. They're out there. You let them go. And all you have to define what happens
after you release them are some calculations and some modeling that tell us nothing about
where they go.
Well, the Bier VII says that there's no such thing as a safe dose. You have no scientific basis,
no factual basis, no data to support such a contention. You have calculations and dispersion
models, and that's all you have. Where do they go
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