Supreme Court, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Supreme Court wrestles with dispute over nuclear waste storage in Texas
The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in southwestern Texas.
Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: Where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel.
Supreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste to be stored in West Texas.
Supreme Court wrestles with US agency's nuclear waste storage licensing power
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 of Texas as well as oil industry interests.
The Supreme Court confronts a national headache: What to do with the growing pile of nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.
Will a Supreme Court case lead to removing nuclear waste from San Onofre?
The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to grant a license to Interim Storage Partners, Inc., to proceed with plans to construct a storage facility in West Texas. The NRC has also approved a license for a group that intends to build a similar project deep underground in southeastern New Mexico.
Supreme Court takes on dispute over nuclear waste storage sites
The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S. facilities far from reactors.
Texas warns Supreme Court approving temporary nuclear waste storage would be a 'terrorist bullseye'
Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson said that approving the request would be like "putting a permanent terrorist bull’s-eye on the nation’s most productive oil field."
Supreme Court debates nuclear waste disposal, questions status of Yucca Mountain site
"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.
Supreme Court split over spent nuclear fuel fight
The justices heard arguments in a dispute over a federal license for a private waste storage facility planned in Texas.
Sweden's plan to ensure future generations remember highly radioactive nuclear waste
Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for ...
Nuclear Power’s Revival Is Here. What Do You Do With All the Radioactive Waste?
Tons of refuse goes into temporary storage every year.