are seeking to block Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval of a private nuclear waste storage facility in the Permian Basin, an area rich with oil deposits and limited sources of safe drinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

temporary offsite storage of nuclear waste. In the case, Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, an appeals court vacated an ...

Heavy earth moving equipment clear soft caliche from the proposed federal waste disposal facility at Waste Control Specialists, a nuclear waste facility on the Texas/New Mexico border.(Tom Fox ...

(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 ...

The lawsuit underscored a touchy subject — plans to store nuclear waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the only permanent storage site in the United States allowed by federal law ...