Waste Transportation
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…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Radioactive Hot Spots map, 2013
See the 2013 map by John Jackson and Anna Tilden, here. Also see the 1990 version, by Irene Kock and David Martin, here.
Read MoreNCAC: Western Shoshone land ownership contention in opposition to Yucca dump
As the State of Nevada moved to re-open the NRC’s Yucca Mountain dump licensing proceeding, in order to terminate it once and for all, the Native Community Action Council (NCAC) took no position on the motion. NCAC re-asserted its land ownership contention, based on the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians’ treaty with…
Read MoreNevada files motion regarding Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project, launches dedicated website with educational resources
CARSON CITY, NV – September 20, 2022 Today, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects announced the filing of a new legal motion to bring an end to failed federal plans to construct a repository for the nation’s highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, 65 miles northwest of Clark County’s populated…
Read MoreOral 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…
Read MoreHigh-Level Radioactive Waste Dump Legal Hearing, Mon., Aug. 29–5th Circuit Court
Thank you to Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition in Austin, TX for the following alert: LISTEN TO the TX versus NRC legal case Monday morning! The State of Texas, Fasken Land and Minerals Company and the Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in federal appeals court, opposing the…
Read MoreSierra Club: REPLY TO OPPOSITIONS TO MOTION FOR SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING (ISP CISF, TX)
On August 12, 2022, Sierra Club replied to oppositions filed against its motion for supplemental briefing in the federal appeal against Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s license for consolidated interim storage of highly radioactive waste in Andrews County, Texas. Wally Taylor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa serves as Sierra Club’s legal counsel. Taylor, on behalf of Sierra…
Read MoreDWM et al.-Sierra Club, re: ISP CISF, TX: PETITIONERS’ FINAL OPENING & REPLY BRIEFS
See the joint Don’t Waste Michigan et al. (a seven-group and one individual national grassroots environmental coalition)/Sierra Club FINAL OPENING BRIEF, in opposition to Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s consolidated interim storage facility targeted at Andrews County, Texas, here: Also see the environmental coalition’s FINAL REPLY BRIEF, here:
Read MoreRe: ISP CISF, TX: FINAL OPENING & REPLY BRIEFS OF PETITIONERS FASKEN LAND AND MINERALS, LTD. AND PERMIAN BASIN LAND AND ROYALTY OWNERS
See Fasken and PBLRO’s FINAL OPENING BRIEF in Don’t Waste Michigan v. NRC, in opposition to the Interim Storage Partners, LLC consolidated interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, here: Also see Fasken and PBLRO’s FINAL REPLY BRIEF, here:
Read MoreFINAL BRIEF OF INTERVENOR INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS, LLC
See ISP’s Final Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, here: ISP argues in defense of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rubber-stamp, in Sept. 2021, approving ISP’s construction and operation license for the highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage scheme targeted at Andrews County, Texas, 0.37 miles from the…
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