Judges at the D.C. Circuit seemed skeptical of arguments that US nuclear regulators were wrong to issue a license to temporarily store spent nuclear reactor fuel in New Mexico based on uncertainty about who could own the fuel in the future.
A group of petitioners representing environmental organizations argued before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reference to a potential change in law doomed the license granted to
The NRC granted the license in May 2023 to accept waste from private companies that currently own commercial spent ...