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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Harry J. Otway, Ronald K. Lohrding, Morris E. Battat
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 2 | October 1971 | Pages 173-184
Technical Paper | Reactor Siting | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A31025
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A method for estimating the risk from reactor installations is presented and applied to the Omega West Reactor, an 8-MW(th) research reactor at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The method, which considers both accident probabilities and the probability of various wind and weather conditions, estimates individual risk as a function of direction and distance from the reactor and estimates the total detriment to the community as a consequence of reactor accidents. The somatic risk due to thyroid carcinoma from 131I uptake, the somatic risks of leukemia and other neoplasms from whole body irradiation, the genetic risk, and nonspecific life shortening were considered. The individual somatic risk at the nearest habitation was found to be 5 × 10−10/year and the total detriment to the community (all the above risks summed over the total population) was 4.5 × 10−4 death per year of reactor operation.
