context: The United States has committed to the development of nuclear energy, yet to-date it lacks a permanent solution for one consequence of that commitment--the generation of spent nuclear fuel, which "poses a dangerous, long-term health and environmental risk." This case is not the first, nor even the second, time that concerned parties have petitioned this Court to address the spent-nuclear-waste problem.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 681 F.3d 483, 483
citation_a.parenthetical: vacating the NRC's rule governing the temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Minnesota v. NRC, 602 F.2d 412, 413, 418-19 (D.C. Cir. 1979) (remanding the NRC’s decision to expand “on-site capacity for the storage of spent nuclear fuel assemblies” in light of “[t]he complex and vexing question of the disposal of nuclear wastes”); New York I, 681 F.3d at 483 (vacating the NRC’s rule governing the temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel); see also In re Aiken Cnty., 645 F.3d 428, 430 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (considering a challenge to the Department of Energy’s attempt to withdraw its application for a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel); Ind. Mich. Power Co. v. DOE, 88 F.3d 1272, 1277 (D.C. Cir. 1996) (requiring the Department of Energy to fulfill its contractual obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel generated by operators of civilian nuclear power plants).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 645 F.3d 428, 430
citation_b.parenthetical: considering a challenge to the Department of Energy's attempt to withdraw its application for a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Minnesota v. NRC, 602 F.2d 412, 413, 418-19 (D.C. Cir. 1979) (remanding the NRC’s decision to expand “on-site capacity for the storage of spent nuclear fuel assemblies” in light of “[t]he complex and vexing question of the disposal of nuclear wastes”); New York I, 681 F.3d at 483 (vacating the NRC’s rule governing the temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel); see also In re Aiken Cnty., 645 F.3d 428, 430 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (considering a challenge to the Department of Energy’s attempt to withdraw its application for a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel); Ind. Mich. Power Co. v. DOE, 88 F.3d 1272, 1277 (D.C. Cir. 1996) (requiring the Department of Energy to fulfill its contractual obligations to dispose of spent nuclear fuel generated by operators of civilian nuclear power plants).