From the Response Briefs filed by those parties in opposition to the NRC’s review of the ASLB June 29, 2010 Order and Memorandum denying DOE’s motion to withdraw the Yucca Mountain license application, one of the main arguments made is that the three newly confirmed commissioners should fully recuse themselves given their testimony at the [...]

The recent publicly disclosed deliberations of the NRC on the matter of revising the NRC Waste Confidence Rule, in which the NRC staff has proposed eliminating the requirement of an operating geologic repository by 2025 as a conditional basis for the NRC to derive confidence that spent fuel and high-level waste can and will be [...]