US Supreme Court rejects challenge of Fermi-3 COL

摘要

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by thernanti-nuclear group Beyond Nuclear challenging the license to buildrnand operate the proposed Fermi-3 reactor in Michigan.rnThe court, without comment, April 16 denied the group’s petition thatrncontended NRC commissioners violated the National Environmental PolicyrnAct when they approved issuing a combined construction permitoperatingrnlicense, also known as a COL, for the reactor.rnIn the petition Beyond Nuclear filed February 26, the grouprnappealed a November 27 decision by the US Court of Appeals for thernDistrict of Columbia Circuit that had rejected its challenge of the COLrnthat NRC issued in 2015 for the unit.