[ RadSafe ] Pa'ina Hawaii Update

[Andrew Buchan]

For those of you interested.

The Enironmental Assessment (agreed to in a joint stipulation between the 
NRC and Earthjustice) was completed and filed 12/21/06, the Topical Safety 
Report associated with the EA was published a few days later.

We had three contentions last year, two we dismissed because we remedied the 
"deficiencies" and the EA took care of the last one. The Judge said he would 
be dismissing the final one sometime after 2/9.

That is also the date when Earthjustice needs to file any late filed 
contentions. You can be there will be some and that terrorism will some how 
figure into them.

Tomorrow night is the public meeting (also part of the stipulation) or as I 
like to call it circus. It will be interesting to see how it goes. Our first 
one was pretty low key, but I am sure the ringleaders at Earthjustice will 
do their best to turn it into a nut house.

Comment period is open for a little while longer, so if anyone would like to 
send the NRC an email saying why irradiators and irradiation aren't the 
devil, feel free.

So we are see the edge of the woods, but we aren't there yet.

Andrew Buchan
RSO Pa'ina Hawai'i