Supreme Court, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Supreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste to be stored in West Texas.
Supreme Court wrestles with US agency's nuclear waste storage licensing power
The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state of Texas as well as oil industry interests.
Supreme Court wrestles with dispute over nuclear waste storage in Texas
The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in southwestern Texas.
Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: Where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel.
Supreme Court takes on dispute over nuclear waste storage sites
The Supreme Court will decide a high-stakes dispute over the storage of highly toxic nuclear waste at privately run U.S. facilities far from reactors.
US Supreme Court to consider nuclear waste storage dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the states of Texas and New Mexico as well as the oil industry.
Supreme Court appears divided on offsite nuclear waste storage
The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday on the question of whether the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license private, temporary offsite storage of nuclear waste. In
Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn't be 'left holding the bag' for US nuclear waste
The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. Texas and a Texas-based oil and gas extraction organization argued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacked the authority to approve a site to store up to 5,
The Supreme Court confronts a national headache: What to do with the growing pile of nuclear waste
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.
Supreme Court hears Texas case on nuclear waste storage in Permian Basin
Supreme Court Justices on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the battle over bringing high-level nuclear waste to the Permian Basin in a lawsuit brought by Fasken Oil and Ranch and the state of Texas.
Supreme Court debates nuclear waste disposal, questions status of Yucca Mountain site
"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.
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Justices Try to Get a Hand on What to Do About Spent Nuclear Fuel
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