Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. v. United States

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this appeal the United States challenges a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims that three electric utilities may maintain a damage suit based on the government’s alleged breach of a 1983 contract with the utilities by which the government agreed, beginning no later than January 1, 1998, to dispose of the nuclear waste that had been produced at the utilities’ nuclear power plant. The government has announced that it will not be able to begin such disposal until at least 2010. The government moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that…