State responsibility
the us Supreme Court did not change the ruling that said that the federal government may be sued for damages resulting from a failure to collect nuclear waste from disposal sites. The judges rejected lower court ruling that the government could not be required to dispose of wastes but could be sued for damages.
Delays in constructing proper storage facilities have left more than 34,000 tons of nuclear waste at 72 civilian nuclear sites in 34 states. A number of states had sued the department of energy for up to us $1billion for damages caused by delays in wastes collection and construction of site for nuclear waste disposal. In a 1982 the us Congress had stated that the government would find a place to bury the nuclear waste by February 1, 1998.
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