As the legal dust settles, the fundamental issue remains unresolved: the U.S. still lacks a permanent solution for its 90,000 metric tons of accumulated nuclear waste, growing by 2,000 tons a year.

The spent nuclear fuel would be stored over the Permian Basin. But Nesbit said spent fuel is very safe. “Most of the radioactivity has decayed off. There’s not a lot of heat there,” he said.

The Supreme Court sides with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on procedural grounds but signals support for its licensing ...

WEST ODESSA, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a significant hurdle in a long-stalled plan to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste in Andrews County, Texas, and Lea County, New ...

Before the commission granted the license, the state submitted comments opposing the storage site and warned against housing spent nuclear fuel on a "concrete pad" above Texas' Permian Basin ...

The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal plan to store up to 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary site in west Texas, rejecting a challenge from local landowners and oil and gas ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against challenges from Texas legislators and landowners to a temporary nuclear waste facility near the New Mexico border.