NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. v. NUCLEAR REG. COM'N

No. 80-1477.

647 F.2d 1345 (1981)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifton E. Curtis, Washington, D. C., with whom James N. Barnes, Leonard C. Meeker, S. Jacob Scherr, Thomas B. Stoel, Jr., Graeme W. Bush, James B. Dougherty and Ellyn Weiss, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for petitioner.

Carlton R. Stoiber, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the bar of the Supreme Court of Colorado, Washington, D. C., by special leave of Court pro hac vice with whom Leonard Bickwit, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Stephen F. Eilperin, Sol. and Irwin B. Rothschild, III, Atty., Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for respondent, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Sanford Sagalkin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David C. Shilton, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Mark B. Feldman, Deputy Legal Adviser, Dept. of State, and Ronald J. Bettauer, Asst. Legal Adviser, Dept. of State, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for respondent United States.

Peter D. Trooboff, Washington, D. C., with whom Brice M. Clagett and Paul G. Gaston, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for amicus curiae urging that the Commission's decision to grant the nuclear export licenses be upheld.

Barton Z. Cowan, Pittsburgh, Pa., with whom John R. Kenrick, John J. Myers, Pittsburgh, Pa., Christopher H. Buckley, Jr., Jonathan Z. Cannon, Washington, D. C., and John R. Erbey, Pittsburgh, Pa., were on the brief, for intervenor.

Before SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, WILKEY and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.


Opinion filed by Circuit Judge WILKEY.

Opinion filed by Circuit Judge SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, concurring in the judgment.

WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises the issue of whether and to what extent "effective control" of nuclear exports requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) to consider projected health and safety impacts associated with an exported reactor in the recipient foreign country. To answer this question...

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