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SEABROOK — Three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit challenging NextEra's attempt to relicense the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant by an additional 20 years, to 2050.
Beyond Nuclear, Seacoast Anti-Pollution League and the New Hampshire Chapter of the Sierra Club filed suit Thursday against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
The suit comes after the NRC's five-member commission unanimously reversed an earlier ruling of the agency's own licensing board admitting the citizens groups into the relicensing hearing on the future of offshore deepwater wind in the Gulf of Maine as an energy alternative to a 20-year license extension of the nuclear power station. The citizens groups claim the commission's decision to overrule the licensing board decision has caused "procedural injury" and violates the Atomic Energy Act and National Environmental Policy Act.
The citizens groups want the court to remedy the stated injury by ordering NRC to re-admit the groups into the Seabrook
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