In 1982, lawmakers authorized creation of a federal nuclear waste site, later designated as Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and encouraged interim waste storage by private energy companies at power ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pushed back stating: “I don't hear you disputing that Congress in the [Nuclear Waste] Policy Act was expressing its, perhaps, preference for on-site storage.

Interim Storage Partners wants to build a temporary waste site for civilian nuclear power facilities in Andrews County, Texas, near an existing low-level radiological waste disposal facility. The ...

the legitimacy of any future sites may be called into question. At a time when nuclear energy is an increasingly pressing need, uncertainty about waste storage could hamper the expansion of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state ...

The Trump administration has now taken over the case and is defending the commission's authority to approve private nuclear waste storage sites. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris, representing ...