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.

MORE ON NEWS 3 | SafeNest seeking luggage for domestic violence victims to transition out of shelter Yucca Mountain in Nye County was first designated as a nuclear waste depository back in 1987.

The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in ...

The justices worried that allowing oil and gas companies and the Lone Star State to upend a private nuclear waste facility would open the door to endless litigation.

Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...

A private company aims to build a nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas. Trains would likely carry the spent fuel ...

"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada ... Partners to store spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County, Texas, for up to 40 years.