Centralized Storage
Beyond Nuclear files Final Opening and Reply Briefs in ISP CISF federal appeal
On August 5, 2022, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein, filed our Final Opening Brief in our federal appeal against the Interim Storage Partners, LLC consolidated interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas. See our Final Opening Brief, below: As part of its Final Opening Brief, we also filed the…
Read More“If this material is so safe, why is it being moved to New Mexico?”
As reported by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad Current-Argus.
Read MoreSupplemental Briefing in ISP CISF Federal Appeal, re: WV v. EPA SCOTUS Ruling
The opposing parties in the 5th Circuit (headquartered New Orleans) U.S. Court of Appeals case regarding the Interim Storage Partners (ISP) consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in Texas filed supplemental briefing filings on August 3, 2022. They focused on the implications of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling in West Virginia versus…
Read MoreNuclear waste storage proposed in Permian Basin facing lawsuits from national groups
As reported by the Carlsbad (New Mexico) Current-Argus. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, and legal counsel, Diane Curran, are extensively quoted.
Read MoreSierra Club Motion for Supplemental Briefing — WV’s implications for ISP case
On July 29, 2022, attorney Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa filed a Motion for Supplemental Briefing on behalf of Sierra Club with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Don’t Waste Michigan versus Nuclear Regulatory Commission federal appeal. See Sierra Club’s Motion, here: The Motion requests the Court…
Read MoreReply Briefs Filed in Federal Appeal against NRC Licensing of Nuclear Waste Dump in Texas
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Diane Curran, attorney for Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 393-9285 Michael Keegan, co-chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441 Terry Lodge, attorney for Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., [email protected], (419) 205-7084 Reply Briefs Filed in Federal Appeal against NRC…
Read MoreDon’t Waste MI et al./Sierra Club Joint Petitioner Reply Brief to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Don’t Waste MI v. NRC (ISF CISF) case
On July 20, 2022, Don’t Waste Michigan, et al.,* and Sierra Club, filed their joint Petitioner Reply Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Brief is posted here: Thus Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., and Sierra Club continue their appeals against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Sept. 2021…
Read MoreISP’s own route maps show that Fort Worth, Texas would be hit coming and going!
In its license application to construct and operate a highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, Interim Storage Partners, LLC included a shipment route map showing that places like Fort Worth, Texas (as well as a broad swath of northern Texas), and much of the State of Oklahoma, would be impacted…
Read MoreLanding Page for Attachments to Letter to Secretary Buttigieg
URL/Hyper-links in the Feb. 25, 2022 Beyond Nuclear letter re: highly radioactive waste transportation risks, sent to the Honorable Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation: Page 3, Section I: <…experts have questioned…>. Page 5, Section II: <…overwhelmingly approved…>; <…bill…>. Page 7, Section V, Subsection (i): <…gap analysis on extended storage and transport…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear letter to Transportation Secretary Buttigieg re: Risks of Shipping Highly Radioactive Wastes
See the Feb. 25, 2022 letter, here. And see the landing page for hot links to embedded URLs/attached documents in the letter. Whether bound for Consolidated Interim Storage Facilities (which would at least double the transportation risks, by definition), or a permanent geologic repository, the highly radioactive waste transport risks are the same. Please feel…
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