US NRC to resume review of Yucca Mountain project

摘要

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is developing a plan, in response to a court order, to resume its review of the US Department of Energy's license application for the canceled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project in Nevada, NRC Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane told reporters in September. Macfarlane said the NRC is "following the law" by "proceeding immediately" to resume the licensing process for the repository. The DOE submitted its license application in 2008, but the NRC suspended its review in 2011 after the DOE canceled the project, citing opposition by the state of the Nevada. In August, after more than a year of deliberation, a federal circuit ordered the NRC to resume its licensing review, which the court said was required by federal law.