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Thursday, June 21, 2012

NRC Petitioned to Stop 35 Reactors Until Court Ruling Satisfied

NRC Petitioned to Stop 35 Reactors Until Court Ruling Satisfied

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 21, 2012
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must not make final licensing decisions until it has completed a rulemaking action on the environmental impacts of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the form of spent, or 'used', reactor fuel storage and disposal, as required under the landmark Waste Confidence Rule decision of June 8th by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, according to

NRC reactor licensing decisions challenged

Pilgrim 73x48The attorney general of the state of Massachusetts has filed an appeal with a US court against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) decision to relicense the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, environmental groups are calling on the NRC to delay final reactor licensing decisions until it has studied the environmental impacts of its policy for on-site used fuel storage.

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