NRC suspends issuing licenses until it addresses spent fuel storage issue

摘要

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionnvoted Aug. 7 to suspend issuing any newnoperating licenses or license renewals fornnuclear reactors until it has come to a betternidea of how it will react to a federal courtndecision, issued in June, that overruled annearlier decision by the agency on how tonaddress the storage of spent nuclear fuel atnthe nation’s plants.