Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Inspectors with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) failed to properly inspect Diablo Canyon Power Plant pipes before a cooling system leak shut down one of the plant’s two reactors for eight days in 2020.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a state petition urging the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate a federal license that would bring spent nuclear fuel to a private storage facility in the Permian Basin.