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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
Educational Session|Panel|Sponsored by Regulatory Relations
Tuesday, August 11, 2020|4:00–5:30PM EDT
Session Organizers:
Amir Afzali (Southern Company)
Brandon Chisholm (Southern Company)
Knowledge Manager:
Maxwell Daniels (IAEA)
Nuclear is well recognized as a clean, affordable, reliable and resilient source of electricity generation. Continued efforts are necessary to facilitate modernization of the technology through innovation. To this end, the private and public sectors are investing in research, development, and deployment of advanced reactors. This includes aggressive strategies to demonstrate advanced reactor designs in less than ten years. This session focuses on providing private and public sector perspectives on the ongoing activities to implement a agile, efficient, and predictable regulatory framework to support these aggressive timelines for the advanced reactors deployment.
Brian Smith
NRR
Alice Caponiti
U.S. DOE
Marc Nichol
NEI
Jeffery Merrifield
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
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