Nuclear Waste Storage

Order For Diablo Review Stands Up
17 January 2007

THE TRIBUNE (SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA) - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday January 16th that it will not review a lower court decision requiring an examination of how a terrorist attack on Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant's aboveground waste storage could harm the environment. That ruling will likely force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and PG&E to redo the environmental analysis of the dry-cask storage facility, complete with more public hearings to specifically address how the environment could be harmed if terrorists attack the facility. NRC officials do not yet have a timeline for fulfilling the court ruling, said Dave McIntyre, NRC spokesman. Diablo Canyon's used but still highly radioactive nuclear waste is now stored in two pools at the plant. These pools are nearly full, and PG&E needs to transfer some of the older spent fuel to dry casks to make way for newer spent fuel.
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