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Jurisdiction, NRC ‘parade of horribles’ dominate oral arguments in Diablo Canyon lawsuit
In the first courtroom action for a lawsuit opposing a life extension of California’s last nuclear plant, federal judges on Wednesday asked if the case belonged in their court and whether keeping it there could unleash a tide of new environmental lawsuits. “I’m trying to decide the floodgate here,” said Circuit Judge Consuelo Callahan, an appointee of President George W. Bush who led Wednesday’s three-judge panel and wanted to know why an environmental coalition headed by San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace did not file its lawsuit in a lower court. Callahan dominated Wednesday’s proceedings, speaking far more than her colleagues Judge Mark Bennett, an appointee of President Donald Trump,… |
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Feds sued by citizen groups questioning adequacy of Rocky Flats cleanup
Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups sued the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland and other federal agencies Monday, claiming radioactive contaminants still linger along the former grounds of the Department of Energy’s Rocky… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Feds seek proposals for potential $3B remediation contract at West Valley
The final solicitation for a new remediation contract at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state, potentially worth $3 billion over a decade, was issued Thursday by the Department of Energy. The DOE Office of Environmental Management announced… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Baran’s nomination to NRC returned to the White House, resetting long road to confirmation
Jeffrey Baran’s nomination for five more years at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was sent back to the White House on Jan. 3, leaving President Joe Biden’s (D) administration with the choice of repeating a hard fight to get Baran through… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Mass production of B61-12, W88 Alt 370 at halfway point
Sometime between October and December, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s programs to refurbish its B61 bombs and W88 warheads reached the halfway mark, an agency spokesperson said Monday. Production of the B61-12 Life Extension Program and W88 Alt 370 reached… |
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