Waste Transportation
Reply 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…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear’s Petitioner Reply Brief to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Don’t Waste MI v. NRC (ISF CISF) case
On July 20, 2022, Beyond Nuclear filed its Petitioner Reply Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. See Beyond Nuclear’s Petitioner Reply Brief, here: Thus Beyond Nuclear continues its appeal against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Sept. 2021 approval of the license to construct and operate the irradiated nuclear…
Read MoreGov. Lujan Grisham statement on Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision to approve Holtec project
See the media statement by New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (pictured above) here.
Read MoreSupreme Court ruling shakes up 5th Circuit nuclear case
As reported by E&E News.
Read MoreEnergy Department Pressed on Nuclear Fuel, Waste in Budget Bill
As reported by Bloomberg Law, re: consolidated interim storage facility and high-assay low enriched uranium funding levels at the U.S. Department of Energy, as decided and provided each year by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, using federal taxpayer funds.
Read MoreProhibition of federal funds for private interim storage of spent nuclear fuel
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (Democrat-Texas) introduced an amendment at the House Appropriations Committee markup hearing and vote on Fiscal Year 2023 Energy & Water Development funding that would have prohibited any federal spending on privately-owned consolidated interim storage facilities for highly radioactive waste. See the Cuellar amendment here: Rep. Cuellar did offer his amendment, but…
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