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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