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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.
Xiangdong Feng, Ian L. Pegg, Aaron Barkatt, Pedro B. Macedo, Samuel J. Cucinell, Shantao Lai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 3 | June 1989 | Pages 334-345
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34255
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The effects on durability of composition variations in West Valley Nuclear Services Company preliminary waste glass composition WV205 are discussed. MCC-3 results at times from 7 to 180 days are presented for 50 glass compositions. The results are suggestive of a large plateau region where durability is good and weakly dependent on composition, adjoining a region in which durability is a much steeper function of composition. The same effect is observed when the redox state of the iron, which comprises ∼12 wt% of the glass, is varied. The general trends are discussed in terms of the structural roles of the components. The effects of the alkalies and alkaline earths correlate quite well with the field strengths of these ions.
