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After Texas case, Fifth Circuit also throws out Holtec license for New Mexico interim storage
A federal court late last week vacated Holtec International’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico. Holtec’s license, granted in May 2023, got caught up in a decision by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may not license storage of commercial spent fuel away from the reactors that generated it. Holtec was not involved with that case, filed by Texas in 2021, but “Texas v. NRC dictates the outcome here,” the Fifth Circuit wrote in the March 27 order that threw out Holtec’s license. The Fifth Circuit tossed the license at the behest of mineral rights groups…		 Upcoming Events

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NNSA splits Pantex, Y-12 federal office
The separation of the Pantex Plant in Texas and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee took a baby step forward this week with the opening of separate federal field offices for the nuclear-weapons production sites. Consolidated Nuclear Security, still…
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$45B Hanford award spawns 3 court cases so far; next BWXT filing due April 22
The Department of Energy’s $45-billion liquid waste contract award at the Hanford Site in Washington state has now spawned three lawsuits, two in Federal Claims Court and one in a federal appeals court. Two of those are still live wires,…
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Environmentalists sue to block DOE’s $1B Diablo Canyon bailout
A federal bailout of Diablo Canyon Power Plant should be paused because the government did not properly review the environmental effects of keeping the plant open, environmentalists said in a lawsuit filed this week. The bailout came from the Department…
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Environmentalists’ S.C. pit lawsuit to be briefed by late June; court leery of further extensions
Environmentalists suing the federal government got two more weeks to file briefs in their case about a planned South Carolina plutonium pit factory, according to an order filed late last week. The case, involving the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA)…
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