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MIDLAND, Texas — There have been recent legal developments for high-level nuclear waste storage in the Permian Basin as one lawsuit is now headed to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, folks with Fasken ...

Texas claims the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks authority to approve plans. Like a radioactive hot potato, a solution to America's growing stockpile of nuclear waste keeps getting passed around.

Biden administration appeals lower court ruling Nuclear waste storage facility planned for Texas U.S. agency sued by Texas, New Mexico, oil interests Oct 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on ...

Nuclear power is key to the United States’ plans to satisfy the nation’s growing energy needs. But there’s an unresolved problem: the waste it produces. Despite plans for an ambitious new generation ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge brought by Texas and a group of landowners to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a private company's plan to temporarily ...

A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...

COVERT, MI — Stacked in neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike large soda cans. But rather than a tasty beverage, the canisters contain spent fuel rods filled with used ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this ...

WEST ODESSA, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a significant hurdle in a long-stalled plan to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste in Andrews County, Texas, and Lea County, New Mexico — ...

HAYDEN, Colo — For several years now, nuclear power has been trying to make a comeback in the U.S. The Biden administration liked nuclear's low carbon footprint, and President Trump has cited nuclear ...