U.S. Says Now Is Not The Time For High Court Review Of Nuclear Waste Tort Liability

( April 13, 2026, 1:58 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite calling the underlying Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling “erroneous,” the United States says that a U.S. Supreme Court petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a uranium processing company and its former owner asking the court to decide whether radiation-dose regulations for nuclear incidents provide the exclusive standard of care in public liability actions pursuant to the Price-Anderson Act (PAA)should be denied, stating that review by the high court “is not warranted at this time.”...