The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving birthright citizenship, guns, gender-affirming medical care ...

Doing so would allow the storage site to proceed. Or the court could delve into the difficult debate over how to handle nuclear waste in the United States. Since the U.S. began large-scale nuclear ...

Biden administration appeals lower court ruling Nuclear waste storage facility planned for Texas U.S. agency sued by Texas, New Mexico, oil interests Oct 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ...

Note that some low and intermediate level waste is stored in suitable repositories for the type of radiation they emit; others are in secure on-site storage that is considered temporary.

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

The US Supreme Court will consider reviving a plan to store as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary west Texas site, accepting a case that could be a turning point after ...

Roughly 91,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial power plants are currently in private storage, both at or away from nuclear reactor sites, according to the U.S. government. And with ...

(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The ramifications of this case could determine the American nuclear industry’s approach to waste storage for the foreseeable future. If the court sides ...

A few months ago, the group won a federal grant to start local discussions about maybe siting an interim waste storage facility somewhere in the region. "It's not The Simpsons with bubbling green ...