Activists win chance to contest nuke license

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Source: Toledo Blade

Four activist groups challenging the relicensing of FirstEnergy Corp.’s Davis-Besse nuclear plant have persuaded a federal three-judge panel to let them have a seat at the table.

In a 65-page ruling, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board said the groups — Beyond Nuclear, Citizens Environmental Alliance of Southwestern Ontario, Don’t Waste Michigan, and the Green Party of Ohio — should be “admitted as parties in this proceeding” because two of their four contentions have at least enough merit to explore further.

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Terry Lodge, a Toledo lawyer representing all four groups involved in the Davis-Besse proceedings, said activists with them have joined 45 other groups in calling on the NRC to suspend all license proceedings until more is known about what happened in the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

“Many of the dangers we brought up in March that were disallowed by the panel have actually happened in Japan,” he said.

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Read more: http://toledoblade.com/local/2011/05/10/Activists-win-chance-to-contest-nuke-license-2.html

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This is good news, hopefully they can stop the relicensing of this ticking time bomb.
Additional info at Beyond Nuclear: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/5/9/environmental-coalition-wins-hearing-against-davis-besse-lic.html