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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

FORT SMITH -- Community leaders have no plans to accept a nuclear waste site in Fort Smith, the city said in a statement Wednesday. The announcement came two days after an informational community ...

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 ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued licenses for two similar nuclear waste storage sites in New Mexico and Texas. Both facilities faced stiff opposition from state officials, but were supported ...