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Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn't be 'left holding the bag' for US nuclear waste
The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority to approve a site to store up to 5,
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.
Will a Supreme Court case lead to the removal of 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 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.
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.
Supreme Court wrestles with nation’s frustrating search for nuclear waste storage
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried about safety issues and the lack of progress toward a permanent solution.
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 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.
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
New Battery Harvests Energy From Radioactive Nuclear Waste
The team tested the battery prototype with cesium-137 and cobalt-60, common radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors. Using ...
Is Mass. nuclear waste storage the reason behind your sky-high electric bill?
Eversource says costs at the plants do not affect its current electric rates, and ratepayers haven’t been paying for expenses ...
A staff office for the US nuclear waste repository will no longer face DOGE cuts
Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department ...
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Highly radioactive nuclear waste: how to keep it from oblivion
Sweden's radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that ...
Saint John energy company says it hit milestone in recycling nuclear waste for energy
A Saint John-based nuclear engineering company says it has hit a milestone in its aim to reduce waste coming from nuclear ...