D.C. Circuit Allows Yucca License Withdrawal To Proceed Before Nuclear Regulatory Board

摘要

A federal appeals court ruling May 3 allows the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to resume proceedings on the Energy Department's motion to withdraw a licensing application for a high-level radioactive waste repository (In re: Aiken County v. Department of Energy, D.C. Cir., No. 10-1050, 5/3/10).rnThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed petitions from Washington state and South Carolina for an order to stop the Energy Department from any further activity to shut down the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada where a repository was slated to be built.