NRC and Holtec violate EJ and consent-based siting: radioactive waste dump licensed in New Mexico

 NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps,  [email protected], 240-462-3216 Diane D’Arrigo, [email protected], 301-270-6477, extension 3 Michael Keegan, [email protected], 734-770-1441 Rose Gardner, [email protected], 575-390-9634 Terry Lodge, Legal Counsel for DWM et al., [email protected], 419-205-7084 Stephen Kent, [email protected], 914-589-5988 NRC APPROVES NEW MEXICO NUCLEAR WASTE ‘INTERIM’ STORAGE FACILITY BUT A NEW STATE LAW AND FEDERAL COURT…

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NEIS Night With The Experts — Mobile Chornobyl: Preventing Unnecessary Risks with Transportation of Nuclear Waste. April 27, 7pm CST

Announcement sent by Dave Kraft, Director, NEIS, on April 15, 2023–   You’re Invited to A Night with the Experts Featuring: Kevin Kamps Beyond Nuclear Speaking on Mobile Chornobyl:   Preventing Unnecessary Risks in Transporting Nuclear Waste Thursday, April 27, 2023 7pm Central Time (8pm ET, 6pm MT, 5pm PT) UTC -5 Zoom Link:  click here  In…

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Train derails on way to load N-waste

VT rail accident sends a clear warning The Brattleboro Reformer reports that a train on its way to load up nuclear waste from the decommissioning Vermont Yankee nuclear power station derailed on February 24, 2023. The derailment involved the “spacer” cars to be coupled between freight cars intended to carry nuclear waste out west.  “‘The…

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Rail routes to CISFs in the Permian Basin

This route map appeared in the license application from Holtec International for its consolidated interim storage facility targeting southeastern New Mexico. An almost identical route map appeared in Interim Storage Partners’ (ISP) license application for its CISF targeting western Texas. The only difference between the two route maps was the CISF destination, and the two…

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Oral argument re: ISP CISF federal appeal scheduled for Nov. 10 in D.C. Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has scheduled oral argument in the federal appeal Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., versus U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, re: Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility targeted at the Waste Control Specialists, LLC’s national “low-level” radioactive waste dump in Andrews…

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