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Thursday
Apr232020

Breaking News: NRC Commissioners unanimously rule against Beyond Nuclear's appeal in Holtec CISF licensing proceeding

Breaking News

 
At 11am Eastern today, the NRC Commissioners held an affirmation session re: appeals in the Holtec CISF (irradiated nuclear fuel Consolidated Interim Storage Facility) licensing proceeding. The associated 60-page MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (including rulings), just released a few hours ago, includes a unanimous rejection of Beyond Nuclear's appeal of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board rejection of our legal challenge against the CISF's illegality, its violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended. (See MEMORANDUM AND ORDER, Section B, pages 4-8.)

Beyond Nuclear and its legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, are reviewing the ruling, in order to determine next steps.

Similarly, our allies opposed to Holtec's CISF (including Sierra Club, Don't Waste MI et al. -- a seven-group national environmental coalition, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, and Fasken Oil and Gas), are also reviewing the NRC Commissioners' rulings, in order to determine next steps.