Washington – Washington (AP) – Supreme court will hear the arguments on Wednesday in the fight on storage plans nuclear waste On sites in Rural Texas and New Mexico.
Administration of Joe Biden President and Private company with license For the Texas plant, he complained about the verdict 5. The US Court for Complaints in the United States, which determined that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission exceeded its authority in the license approval. The outcome of the case will affect plans for A similar object in new Mexico Approximately 40 miles (65 kilometers).
On this issue, President Donald Trump is holding his predecessors, even with Texas Gov. Greg AbbottRepublican ally Trump, on the other hand.
Pressure for temporary storage is part of complicated policy So far, mutual mutual pursuit for a permanent underground warehouse.
Here’s what to know about the case:
About 100,000 tons (90,000 metric tons) of fuel consumedSome of them from the 1980s, piling up in the current and former nuclear plant sites throughout the country and grow for more than 2,000 tons (1,800 metric tons) per year. The waste was supposed to be there temporarily guarded before depositing deep underground.
Plan for the construction of a national warehouse northwest of Las Vegas on the Yucca mountain is mothbally Due to the equipment opens from most residents of Nevada and officials.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that temporary storage sites needed because the existing nuclear power plants are running out of the room. The presence of consumed fuel also harmonizes plans for the removal of some plants, the judicial department listed at the judiciary.
NRC has approved the Texas license for the temporary LLC storage partners that could take up to 5,000 metric tons of consumed nuclear fuels from power plants and 231 million tons of other radioactive waste. The building would be built next to the existing landfill in the Anrews district for low-level waste such as protective clothing and other material that was exposed to radioactivity. Andrews County page is located about 350 miles (560 kilometers) west of Dallas, near the Texas-New Mexico State line.
The new Mexican facility would be in Lea County, in the southeastern part of the state near Carlsbad. NRC has given permission for the site for International Holtec.
Licenses would enable 40 years of storage, although opponents would argue that the facilities would be open due to stalemate over the permanent storage space.
Republicans and democrats, ecological groups and oil industry and gas oppose temporary locations.
Abbott is the leading Texas opposition to the warehouse. New Mexico Democratic Government. Michelle Lujan Grisham It also opposes an object planned for her country.
Briefly headed by Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz calls that nuclear waste is designed for two objects “Enticiberized Terrorist” and claims that it is too risky to build a swimming pool, giant oil and natural gases inflated Texas and New Mexico.
The selected community leaders on routes spent fuel should probably be taken to New Mexico, and Texas are also opposite.
It will make sure whether, as the NRC claims that the States took their right to licensing decisions, because they refused to join the Commission’s actions.
The two other federal appeals of courts, in Denver and Washington, who weighed the same question were judged by the Agency. It’s only 5. The circle enabled the cases of class.
Another question is whether the Federal Law enable the Commission to license a temporary warehouse. Opponents rely on the Decision of the Supreme Court in 2022. year that the Congress must act with the specificity of when it wants to give the Agency to regulate the issue of great national significance. In the Texas judgment, 5. The circle agreed that what to do with nuclear waste nation’s kind of “great question” that the Congress must talk directly.
But the Ministry of Justice claimed that the Commission has a long-standing authority for dealing with nuclear waste returning to the 1954 atomic energy. Years.
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2025-03-05 13:58:00
