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Centralized Storage

With the scientifically unsound proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump now canceled, the danger of "interim" storage threatens. This means that radioactive waste could be "temporarily" parked in open air lots, vulnerable to accident and attack, while a new repository site is sought.

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Entries from June 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019

Monday
Jun032019

Beyond Nuclear appeals to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission against Holtec's CISF in NM

Beyond Nuclear's legal counsel, Diane Curran and Harmon Curran in Washington DC, and Mindy Goldstein of Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory U. in Atlanta GA, have appealed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) against the May 7, 2019 Atomic Safety and Licesning Board (ASLB) rulings in favor of Holtec International's license application. Holtec is targeting southeastern New Mexico for consolidated interim storage of 173,600 metric tons of commercial highly radioactive waste.

See BEYOND NUCLEAR’S BRIEF ON APPEAL OF LBP-19-04.

Also see BEYOND NUCLEAR’S NOTICE OF APPEAL OF LBP-19-04.

And see Beyond Nuclear's media release, accompanying the appeal.

Monday
Jun032019

NRC writes D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, urging it dismiss Beyond Nuclear's lawsuit against CISFs

See, here, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's most recent motion to dismiss Beyond Nuclear's legal challenge against consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at New Mexico and Texas.

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