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Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Court Forces a Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage

Appeals court rejects storage of spent fuel at nuclear plants US appeals court ...

Boston.com -
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a rule that allows nuclear power plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after a plant shuts down. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the us Court of Appeals for the ...

Court Forces a Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage

New York Times -
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission acted hastily in concluding that spent fuel can be stored safely at nuclear plants for the next century or so in the absence of a permanent repository, and it must consider what will happen if none are ...

Appeals court rejects waste storage at nuke plants

Fox News -
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a rule that allows nuclear power plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after a plant shuts down. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the US Court of ...

Nuclear headache: What to do with 65000 tons of spent fuel?

msnbc.com - ‎1
Most spent nuclear fuel is stored in pools like this one, with rods typically under 30 feet of water. By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com In a blow to the nuclear energy industry, a federal appeals court on Friday threw out a rule allowing plants to store ...

Nuclear panel must weigh risks of long-term storage, court rules

Los Angeles Times - ‎1
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must consider the environmental and safety issues involved with long-term storage of radioactive wastes at power plants when it renews operating licenses, a potentially ...

Nuclear Agency Ordered to Revisit Waste-Storage Plan

Wall Street Journal - ‎1
By RYAN TRACY WASHINGTON—A federal court on Friday ordered US nuclear regulators to redo an environmental analysis of nuclear-waste storage, saying they hadn't looked at the full scope of potential impacts. The unanimous finding from the US Court of ...

Nuclear Waste Storage Rules Thrown Out by US Court

BusinessWeek -
By Don Jeffrey on June 08, 2012 The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to fully evaluate risks associated with its regulations on the storage of spent nuclear fuel and must draft new ones, an appeals court ruled. The commission's conclusion that ...

Onsite storage of nuclear waste could hold up IP relicensing decision

EmpireStateNews.net -
WASHINGTON – A final decision on whether the Indian Point nuclear power plants may be relicensed may hinge on a new US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision Friday. The court agreed with New York State Attorney General Eric ...

AG Schneiderman Wins Landmark Victory in Challenge to Continued Storage of ...

Power Engineering Magazine -
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that he has won a landmark victory in a suit against the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) challenging a Commission finding that the long-term storage of radioactive waste at the ...

Court tosses out rules on waste storage at nuclear plants

Bangor Daily News -
Some of the cylindrical steel-lined concrete containers that comprise the spent fuel storage facility at Maine Yankee in Wiscasset. By Don Jeffrey and Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg News The Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to fully evaluate risks ...

Court Rules Closed Plants Can Hold Nuclear Waste For 30 Years, Not 60

Patch.com -
By Paul Petrone Friday, Attorney General George Jepsen announced a decision by the federal appeals court that allows nuclear power plants to hold onto their spent nuclear fuel (ie nuclear waste) for up to 30 years after the plant was shut down, ...

Court tosses nuke waste storage rule

Cherry Hill Courier Post -
AP WASHINGTON — In a case challenged by the Christie administration and other eastern states, a federal appeals court on Friday threw out a rule that allows nuclear power plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 years after a ...

Spent nuclear fuel storage decision praised​

New Haven Register -
By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief A federal appeals court is forcing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to rethink its rules regarding how long spent nuclear fuel can be stored on site at current and former reactors. State Attorney General George ...

Minnesota communities hail decision halting plans for nuclear waste storage

Pioneer Press -
By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Leaders of communities that sit by Minnesota's two nuclear power plants hailed a federal appeals court decision Friday, June 8, that halted plans to allow nuclear plants to store radioactive waste at reactor sites for up to 60 ...

Court orders NRC to take second look at waste storage

Brattleboro Reformer -
By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO - Concluding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not examine the environmental effects of failing to establish a permanent repository for nuclear waste, an appeals court in Washington, DC, threw out an NRC ...

Court curbs licenses to store nuclear waste

Minnesota Public Radio -
by Conrad Wilson, Minnesota Public Radio ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A federal court ruled today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can no longer license or re-license any power plant until it examines the effects of long-term storage of onsite nuclear ...

Could federal ruling be trouble for Vt Yankee?

WCAX -
By WCAX News - bio | email A victory for Vermont Friday in what the attorney general is calling a "major ruling" on the storage of nuclear waste. Vermont Yankee and other nuclear plants around the country are forced to store spent radioactive fuel ...

Van Ness Feldman | D.C. Circuit Remands Nuclear Waste Fee Determination to DOE

Linex Legal (press release) (registration) -
On June 1, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“DC Circuit” or “Court”) overturned the Secretary of Energy's (“the Secretary”) 2010 assessment of the adequacy of the Nuclear Waste Fund one mill (one-tenth of a ...

Court: Closed Nuclear Plants Can't Store Spent Fuel for 60 Years

Hartford Courant -
By MARA LEE maralee@courant.com The Hartford Courant A federal appeals court ruled Friday that spent nuclear fuel cannot be stored at closed plant sites for 60 years, a decision that spurns the US Department of Energy and sides with environmental ...

Major Court Ruling Forces Nuclear Waste Disposal Review

eNews Park Forest -
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--June 8, 2012 – A federal appeals court's unanimous decision today forces the country to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of the storage and disposal of its nuclear waste in a way that has never been done before.

U.S. Court rules Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to fully evaluate the ...

Enformable -
A US appeals court ruled that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to answer questions about the potential environmental impact of storing spent nuclear fuel at sites around the country. The petitioners, including the state of New York and ...
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