The Supreme Court ruled a company can store nuclear waste at a facility near the Texas -New Mexico state line. Nuclear experts say the 6-3 ruling could free up private companies to keep nuclear ...

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear ...

Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still has no long-term plan for its 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel.

The decision left dissenting Justice Neil Gorsuch and two allies wondering how a case dealing with the storage of spent ...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down rulings on five cases Wednesday, most notably backing a Tennessee law that bans health ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold the NRC's licensing of a nuclear waste facility in Texas, dismissing a challenge ...

The Lone Star State doesn't have the right to block a private facility built atop an aquifer that would store half the nation ...

The Supreme Court has ruled to allow plans to proceed for a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas.

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Wednesday a legal challenge by the state of Texas and oil industry interests to the ...

In a 6-3 decision, the court said Texas and oil industry interests could not fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the site.