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Eli Dourado
@elidourado
Delighted to be in the WSJ this morning with my colleague
@ckoopman
arguing that the NRC is exceeding its statutory authority in reactor licensing. "Federal courts should simply require the NRC to follow federal law."
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Eli Dourado
@elidourado
This lawsuit is extremely promising. Some history: After WWII, Congress locked down nuclear technology by passing the McMahon Act (1946). This required the Atomic Energy Commission to license all nuclear devices and reactors. A few years later, in 1954, Congress decided that
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Zach Van Horn
@nuclearzak
The NRC is following federal law. Municipal governments don't have the capacity to license nuclear power plants. Odds are better that they'll simply ban them instead of creating 100s of small NRCs at the state and municipal levels.
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Aaron Chiandet
@chiandet
"...NuScale spent more than $500 million just to get its design certification approved by the NRC, a process that took more than two million hours of labor and required millions of pages of information."
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