Comment (6) of Donivan Porterfield on FR Doc # 2026-11785, NRC-2026-2906-0001, from Donivan Porterfield
Donivan PorterfieldOtherIndividual
Summary: The commenter is requesting specific technical information and safety considerations regarding the proposed uranium enrichment facility. They ask for details on criticality accident controls, radionuclide impurities, inventory storage, transportation methods, and the intended use of the enriched uranium.
Cleary address engineering and procedural controls to avoid criticality accidents. As well the potential hazard exposure to the public resulting from a criticality accident.
Whether the incoming UF6 would only represent virgin uranium or may be the result of re-processing of used nuclear fuel and may contain mixed fission and activation products and how the potential accumulation of those radionuclide impurities in cascade systems would be managed.
The expected inventory of incoming and outgoing UF6 that would stored within and outside the constructed facilities.
The potential for release of UF6 and other uranium forms to the environment and public exposure potential.
The manner of transportation of the incoming and outgoing UF6.
The disposition path for cylinder heels and other associated enrichment process byproducts.
Would only obligated uranium be enriched and only used for civilian reactor fuel purposes.