A federal appeals court vacated a license issued to a private company to store nuclear waste in Andrews, Texas along that state’s border to southeast New Mexico, a ruling that could impact a similar ...

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.

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Holtec International, facing an "untenable path forward" for a long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico, will explore options in other states, the Camden firm has announced. Holtec ...

Drums of highly toxic radioactive transuranic wastes set inside a salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico March 20 2006. WIPP chief scientist Roger Nelson oversees the ...

Lawyers were arguing before the Supreme Court this month over permitting facilities to handle temporary nuclear waste storage when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch pointed to the skunk in the room. That would ...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican ...

Nuclear power’s dirtiest secret is not how the fuel is made, but where it ends up sitting for decades: in crowded pools of ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving nuclear waste storage plans in rural Texas and New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent agency that regulates ...

A recently passed resolution by San Diego County seeks partnerships with national labs and companies to reprocess the waste ...

The Chornobyl nuclear power plant is slowly but surely moving towards a safer future. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has officially given the Chornobyl plant the green light to ...