CITIZENS FOR SAFE POWER, INC. v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COM'N

No. 74-1186.

524 F.2d 1291 (1975)

CITIZENS FOR SAFE POWER, INC., and Audubon Naturalist Council, Petitioners, v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold P. Green, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.

James A. Glasgow, Atty., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with whom Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Marcus A. Rowden, Gen. Counsel, Jerome Nelson, Sol., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Edmund B. Clark and Neil T. Proto, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief for respondent. Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, and Leon Silverstrum, Atty., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission also entered appearances for respondent.

Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., Boston, Mass., for intervenor.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, MacKINNON, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge for the District of Utah.


CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

Petitioners seek review of a final decision and order of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)1 (now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 42 U.S.C. § 5841(f)) affirming issuance of an operating license to Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (Maine Yankee) for a constructed commercial power reactor near Wiscasset, Maine.

Petitioners contend that failure of...

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