(491.4872) NIRS - A remarkable victory on Earth Day: On that day (April 22) Louisiana Energy Services (LES) formally withdrew its application to build a uranium-enrichment plant in northern Louisiana, near the town of Homer. LES was a consortium led by the European enrichment firm Urenco. Other partners include subsidiaries of Duke Power, Northern States Power and Fluor Daniel.
Despite several partial reversals by the NRC commissioners of earlier Atomic Safety and Licensing Board denials of the license for the plant (see WISE NC 463/4: CANT wins ASLB decision; LES project probably finished), LES apparently decided the odds of its receiving a license were growing slim. Most recently, the commissioners partially reversed the landmark decision denying a license on environmental justice grounds. However, the commissioners upheld several specific environmental justice claims.
It had become clear that to continue with the process, LES would have had to do substantially more work on its license application, a new environmental impact statement would have had to be prepared, and LES would have had to raise a substantial amount of its construction financing before receiving a license.
The Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS) wants to thank all who have helped in this
nearly nine-year struggle against LES--there are a lot of you--but especially Citizens Against
Nuclear Trash (CANT) and all the wonderful people of Center Springs, Forest Grove and Homer,
Louisiana, and attorneys Diane Curran and Nathalie Walker.
Break out the champagne; this time, the good guys won! Send them a nice congratulations card!
Source: NIRS, Michael Mariotte, 22 April 1998
Contact: CANT, P.O. Box 70, Homer LA 71040, USA
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