Judges dismiss Yucca suit, but state is happy

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- A panel of federal judges has thrown out one of Nevada's lawsuits on the Yucca Mountain Project, dismissing it on technical grounds.

The lawsuit sought to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change a regulation that presumes a nuclear waste repository will be open and operating by 2025.

Nevada attorneys told a three-judge panel in a Sept. 14 hearing that the so called "waste confidence" rule would bias the NRC in favor of approving the repository being planned for Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

But the judges, sitting in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dismissed the case in an unpublished ruling filed Sept. 22.

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