Posted on 08/08/2012 5:42:59 PM PDT by EBH
Court Rules That NRC Can No Longer Accept Assurances a Permanent Waste Repository Is Coming
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it would stop issuing licenses for nuclear plants until it addresses problems with its nuclear-waste policy that were raised by a recent federal appeals court decision
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Court delays Yucca ruling
http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/080812-yucca-mountain-nuclear-
An appeals court is putting off deciding whether to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to act on the Yucca Mountain site’s long-pending license application.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced on Friday it will wait up to four months to rule on a petition ordering the NRC to approve or disapprove the application because the Commission reports it does not have sufficient funds to conduct a review.
The petition to the court - a writ of mandamus - seeking to compel NRC to act was filed last year by Aiken County.
Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in his concurring opinion, wrote, “The parties’ submissions reveal that granting mandamus now would entail significant expenditures of government resources. But Congress’s upcoming appropriations decisions would well affect whether those expenditures are necessary.”
The court gave the NRC until ?Dec. 14 to report back whether Congress has allocated the funding the Commission says it needs, more than the $10.4 million it already has.
Aiken County filed the writ of mandamus in response to the Department of Energy’s attempt to abandon the license application pending before NRC on the proposed repository for used nuclear waste. NRC received the application roughly three years ago, but has not yet ruled on it, even though the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act says it is bound to determine if Yucca Mountain is suitable.
The parties that initiated the lawsuit have voiced concerns that, if the federal government abandons the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the only congressionally approved site for permanently disposing of the nation’s spent nuclear waste will be lost.
Read more: Court delays Yucca ruling | Aiken Standard
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Everyone who uses electricity payed for the construction of a perfectly marvelous waste depositary.
Thank you you giant PIG Harry read for highhandedly screwing us all.
The Pig Harry Reid of course.
It is my understanding that there is a perfectly adequate facility currently in use at Carlsbad New Mexico and it can be expanded as needed
It is my understanding that there is a perfectly adequate facility currently in use at Carlsbad New Mexico and it can be expanded as needed
We’re better off generating power from fossil fuels, anyway.
This is an urgent issue of mass public safety. There are a number of reactors in the US that store their spent fuel in a manner similar to the design at Fukushima. Should any of these spent fuel pools lose cooling, we can expect a similar catastrophe.
The federal government’s handling of the proper storage of spent nuclear fuel has been criminal.
They are waiting until after the election.
Even the French recycle theirs.
Thank Jimmy Carter for the 'no recycle' policy that every frigging GOP president has let ride.
/johnny
Use NASA to rocket our nuke waste into the sun. Thanks to Obama they don’t have anything better to do.
This is EXACTLY what Obama wanted.
AND, we still have plans (and testing) of ‘spent’ reactors from our ‘friends’ across the pond....Why again are there no re-use of ‘spent’ rods? Don’t tell me they’re safe after the 1st go-round :P
Fedzilla, yet AGAIN, gets in the way
No, thanks Jimmy Cartah for screwing us all!
We should be reprocessing the very expensive “waste”, the peanut farmer put the order in place preventing our doing that.
Yucca is just stupid, a hole in the ground to be monitored for thousands of years.
But apparently you are OK with the “Screw Nevada” bill that enabled it, since YOU do not live here.
“Stopping” (probably only delaying) Yucca just may the ONLY thing Dingy ever did right!
The only thing dumber than a committee is a congress.
Where is Mitt on this?
He could go a long way toward getting me more enthusiastic about voting for him if he would just release a list of E.O.’s that he would rescind permanently.
The automatic continuance of “Law” not approved by congress is just flat wrong.
All E.O.’s should sunset at the end of each term, unable to come back without an up and down recorded vote of congress.
As they stand now we get a form of dictatorship.
The executive is not to have outsize powers, three EQUAL branches of Govt.!
The rods do get recycled. There is even a plant in Erwin Tennessee, near here, which does the job every day.
Screw Nevada? Nevada screwed the country (which is natural since it’s the states main industry - screwing people).
We saw this coming (or something like it)-—
Georgia ignored Bath-House Barry’s ineligibility, IMO, in return for a promise that the Savannah River Port would be dredged out AND a nuclear plant would be built.
Stupid politicians-BATH-HOUSE BARRY LIES; don’t you GET it yet?
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