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By Douglas P. Guarino

Global Security Newswire

WASHINGTON – A group of state governments has filed legal action against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, saying the scope of an agency review on the impacts of leaving radioactive waste at nuclear power plants sites indefinitely is not as broad as a federal court has mandated.

Spent nuclear fuel has been piling up at reactor sites around the country. Last year, a federal appeals court sided with the...