The NRC granted the Texas license to Interim Storage Partners, based in Andrews, Texas, for a facility that could take up to 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) of spent nuclear fuel rods from power ...

There is a term well known in the political world, and that term is “NIMBY,” standing for “not in my back yard.” This term ...

Wyoming lawmakers are wrestling with whether to green light potentially numerous nuclear waste sites throughout the state.

The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear fuel for decades. Nevada officials generally have fought the project ...

In 2021, the commission approved temporary storage sites in Texas due to nuclear power plants running out of space, and the planned permanent underground storage facility in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear ...

At a townhall, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray addressed concerns about Radiant Nuclear proposed nuclear project in Bar ...

The United States alone has 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste, which is increasing at a rate of 2,000 metric tons per year.6 The most dangerous of this waste is designated high-level waste (HLW), ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent ...