Texas interim storage lawsuit lacks jurisdiction, is unpersuasive, NRCargues

摘要

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week continued to poke holes in the state of Texas’s lawsuit over an interimstorage facility for spent nuclear fuel proposed for Andrews County, arguing that the Lone Star State had no right to sue— and even if it did, that its case was badly flawed. Texas hasn’t shown that it would face “a concrete and imminent injury” from the September licensing of Interim StoragePartners’ (ISP) proposed interim storage site, NRC told the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a brief Monday. State AttorneyGeneral Ken Paxton’s argument about the possibility of an accident at the site is “remote and speculative” and “does not,without more, constitute injury to a legally protected interest” of the state, the agency said.