6-3 decision rules that a federal agency can exclude a state and company from impacting decisions that affect them if they don’t jump through extensive agency hoops (without the agency’s OK)
Court says parties did not participate enough in the NRC licensing process to be allowed to challenge the decision and that parties must “successfully intervene,” which requires the agency’s approval.
The licenses for supposedly “interim” storage sites for deadly radioactive waste, would affect communities in most of the lower 48 states–triggering transport by rail, barge and massive trucks throughout the U.S. for decades
