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 ...
Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S.
Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste, as it considered a plan to store it above one of ...
A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...
The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission purports to allow a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico. President Joe Biden’s administration and ...
“This facility is central to the management and disposal of defense-related nuclear waste,” Vasquez said ... agencies to scramble to justify their real estate holdings. In southeastern New ...