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Judges question environmentalists’ legal recourse in fight about Diablo Canyon Unit 1 vessel
Federal judges on Monday worried that the owner of California’s last nuclear power plant has not checked the condition of a reactor core for more than a decade but questioned whether environmentalists had grounds to force such a check. “Your argument from practicality and so on is really disturbing,” Marsha Berzon, a senior judge in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Phoenix, told Dianne Curran, a lawyer for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace. However, Berzon said during oral arguments, Curran seemed to have a “problem finding” where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission broke the law. Mothers for Peace say NRC illegally amended Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s (PG&E) operating…		 Upcoming Events

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New pit waste, some older waste excluded from ‘legacy’ transuranic definition
The Department of Energy on Tuesday proposed excluding waste from new plutonium pits and some nuclear-weapons waste generated before 1970 from part of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The restrictions, which would apply only to Panel 12 at the deep-underground…
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Judge compels arbitration in case pitting Hanford landlord against Guards Union case
A federal district judge in Washington state agreed last month to grant a motion by the Hanford Guards Union directing the Department of Energy’s landlord contractor at the Hanford Site to engage in arbitration. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in…
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NRC shouldn’t give local man hearing over Palisades restart, Holtec says
A former employee at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan should not be allowed to block federal regulatory relief needed to restart the plant, Holtec International said this week. In a Monday regulatory filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,…
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SRNS CEO says Fluor will compete for new Savannah River M&O deal
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Dennis Carr, chief operating officer at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, told the Monitor here last week that the team’s parent company Fluor would compete for a follow-on management contract at Savannah River. In late September, the National…
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