Texas fighting to keep interim storage suit alive

摘要

Texas is fighting to keep its lawsuit against commercial interim storage of spent nuclear fuel in the state from getting tossed on a technicality, as a similar suit was last week, a court filing shows. The state on Friday argued that a site proposed in Andrews County by the Interim Storage Partners (ISP) joint venture of Orano and Waste Control Specialists constitutes a “major question” of public interest that the court can legally address now, without worrying about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s argument that Texas forfeited its right to sue because the state was not an official participant in NRC’s review of ISP’s license application from 2018 to 2021.