NRC Ends Ban on Licencing Reactors, Allows Indefinite Storage of Nuclear Waste at Individual Reactor Sites

Background   Beginning in 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was not been able to issue licenses for new nuclear reactors, or issue renewals for existing licenses. This is because a federal judge threw out the NRC’s radioactive waste policy – called the “waste confidence rule.” The waste confidence rule stated that the NRC was […]