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Beyond Nuclear brings interim storage case back to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may once again scrutinize the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s authority to license consolidated interim storage facilities for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The antinuclear group Beyond Nuclear has filed a petition with the court for a writ of certiorari review of an August 2024 appeals court decision rejecting the group’s lawsuit against the licensing of Holtec International’s New Mexico storage facility, the HI-STORE CISF.
Jun Chen, Liangzhi Cao, Xingjian Wen, Zhouyu Liu, Hongchun Wu (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.)
Transactions | Volume 118 | Number 1 | June 2018 | Pages 865-868
