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 ruled 6-3 against challenges from Texas legislators and landowners to a temporary nuclear waste ...

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing in his dissenting opinion in Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, accused the ...

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

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

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

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.

A single NuScale Power Module small modular reactor could yield about 150 million gallons of clean water per day, the company ...

The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is ...

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