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.

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

granted to Holtec International for the facility in Lea County, New Mexico, is tied up in court proceedings. But officials for the state of Texas said that Yucca Mountain is the government's plan ...

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

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to grant a license to Interim Storage Partners Inc. to proceed with plans to construct a storage facility in West Texas.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court wrestled with whether to move forward with plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at a site ...

The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against a perennial problem -- the U.S. lacks ...

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...