NRC v. Texas
2025 United States Supreme Court case
Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, 605 U.S. 665 (2025), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only parties to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing proceedings are entitled to obtain judicial review of the Commission's licensing decisions.
Background
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 generally prohibits the private possession of nuclear materials, including spent nuclear fuel, without a license. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission promulgated regulations in 1980 allowing licenses to be granted for private off-site storage of spent fuel. These regulations were left undisturbed by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and were upheld by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004.
In this case, Interim Storage Partners (ISP) applied for a license to build a facility in Texas to store spent nuclear fuel. During ISP’s licensing proceeding, a Texas government agency submitted comments, including comments on a draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Commission for the proposed facility. Fasken Land and Minerals, a private Texan business, similarly submitted comments, and it also sought to intervene in the licensing proceeding. The Commission denied Fasken's petition to intervene. Fasken unsuccessfully challenged that denial of intervention before the full Commission and the D.C. Circuit.
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