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Court sets schedule in Yucca case
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WASHINGTON -- A federal court on Friday set the schedule for a lawsuit that seeks to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reopen its review of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
Plaintiffs headed by the attorneys general of Washington state and South Carolina have charged the NRC dragged its feet on licensing for the Nevada repository in violation of a three-year deadline set by Congress.
In the meantime, the Obama administration closed down the project. The NRC suspended its license review on Oct. 1, saying it no longer had money for it.
The lawsuit was filed in July, and the plaintiffs in September asked for it to be fast-tracked, which was granted in the court order Friday. The deadline for final legal briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was set for Feb. 13, with oral arguments to follow "on the first appropriate date."
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The Court, Congress and the DOE should move forward with the Nuclear Waste Act of 1982 and by-pass Nevada politics. This is NOT an issue of state’s rights. “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding”. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 was PASSED by congress as the law of the land by the “majority of states” by congressional representation. Further, the State of Nevada through its Senatorial abuse of power is USURPING congressional law rather than REVERSING it by Congressional vote. These actions are NOT representative of Nevada’s citizens. Further, the administrations “political opposition” of closure and defunding of the Yucca Mountain “application” again usurps Congressional Law. The Reid campaign with its establishment political representatives DO NOT represent the grassroots citizens of Nevada. Such a travesty of justice should have been brought to a PUBLIC VOTE!
I am a Nevada resident of more than 12 years and work in the Nuclear Construction industry (not in Nevada, obviously).
Reid and Obama are simply finding one more way to kill the economy and keep Nevada citizens unemployed and dependent on the federal government so they can control the vote.
This site will provide REAL jobs making REAL money. Unfortunately, many people think "mushroom clouds" when they think Nuclear because of all the idiotic lies and fiction from hollywood, greenpeace, sierra club, and other wackos. Don't let reality and facts get in the way of your convoluded, emotional reaction.
The state legislators need to pass a bill that taxes nuke waste so high that it either stops them from wanting to put it here or make it high enough that NV tax payers change their mind.....like a billon dollars per cask
The deal in South Carolina is that they want to clear out high-level waste from the DOE' Savannah River Site in order to bring in spent fuel for reprocessing. Without Yucca Mountain they can't make the deceptive claim to resident of SC that they have a "way out" for any new waste brought in. It's all part of a scheme by special interests to bring in big-government bucks to SRS in order to get rich off reprocessing and Yucca was a big part of the smokescreen to deceive the public. Be aware that the hand of the plutonium industry is at play in this game, aided by minions like Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, parading as conservatives but actually pushing radical and costly agendas hatched from the rotten egg of big government and industry collusion.
Senator Patty Murray (D) of Washington is 'outraged' about this, as Washington has many tons of radioactive material to dispose of. She would probably react quite differently if Washington was a depository destination.