Court ruling forces US nuclear industry to rethink appeal

Court ruling forces US nuclear industry to rethink appeal

Washington (Platts)--12Oct2004


The US nuclear industry is considering whether it will proceed with a planned
appeal to the US Supreme Court of an appeals court ruling remanding to the
Environmental Protection Agency a 10,000-year regulatory requirement
considered critical to the licensing of a high-level nuclear waste respository
in Nevada, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute said Tuesday. 

The group was forced to reconsider its options after the US Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday rejected the organization's
request to stay the remand order pending an appeal to the high court. All
petitions seeking Supreme Court review must be filed by Nov 30. In its ruling
earlier this year, the appeals court found that the EPA regulation, which was
designed to protect humans from radioactivity for 10,000, was insufficient.

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