Legal Opinion
Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 19, 1979No. Nos. 78-1188, 78-1189, 78-1204, 78-1892, 78-1894, 78-1895, 78-1993 and 78-1994PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OP THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
On December 23, 1977, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) suspended for approximately two years its decisionmaking process regarding proposals for the recycling of spent nuclear fuel and the use in nuclear reactors of plutonium recovered from that fuel. This suspension was announced in an order terminating informal rulemaking and related licensing proceedings concerning this subject. In part, the decision to place a moratorium upon these deliberations was taken in deference to President Carter’s stated objective of deferring domestic…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc. v. Public Service CommissionCourt of Appeals of Wisconsin · 1981
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- American Civil Liberties Union v. Federal Communications CommissionCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985