D.C. Circuit says lacks jurisdiction over NRC's nuclear waste rule
Legal D.C. Circuit says lacks jurisdiction over NRC's nuclear waste rule Sebastien Malo 3 minute read A federal appeals court dismissed on Tuesday a bid by a nuclear industry trade group to invalidate a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) policy that now requires owners and operators of nuclear power reactors to obtain the agency's approval to dispose of very low-level radioactive waste where certain states' authorizations previously sufficed. In a per curiam judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reasoned that the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) failed to cha...
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