Unlawful to store high-level radioactive waste in State
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Nevada v. Watkins (1990)
Most recently applied in United States v. Morros (October 2001)
(Added to NRS by 1989, 2113)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. It is unlawful for any person or governmental entity to store high-level radioactive waste in Nevada.
2. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “high-level radioactive waste” has the meaning ascribed to that term in 10 C.F.R. § 60.2.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.