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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.
Hisashi Nakamura, Toshimasa Narazaki, Satoshi Yanagihara
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 2 | August 1989 | Pages 168-178
Technical Paper | Decontamination and Decommissioning / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34267
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The decommissioning program of the Japan Power Demonstration Reactor (JPDR) is under way. For the purpose of dismantling the biological shield of the JPDR, a diamond sawing and coring technique and an abrasive-water jet cutting technique have been developed. In the technical development, the influence of various factors on the cutting performance and the characteristics of secondary products were investigated. As a result, remote cutting systems that incorporated these techniques were fabricated for the dismantlement of the highly activated region of the biological shield.
