Supreme Court clears way for nuclear waste storage in Texas, New Mexico . . . WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 solution The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in
Supreme Court greenlights nuclear waste site in Texas In a 6-3 decision on June 18, the court said Texas and oil industry interests cannot fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the site because they hadn't sufficiently participated in
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES negotiated Nuclear Waste Policy Act, Congress was of course fully aware of the 1954 Atomic Energy Act and the Commission’s 1980 regulations authorizing private off-site storage of spent nuclear fuel—as well as the existence of private off-site storage facilitie s like the GE Morris facility See S Rep No 97–282, pp 44, 65 (1981);
Supreme Court nixes Texas challenge of nuclear waste license - Axios The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Texas and oil interests can't challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's permit for a privately owned temporary nuclear waste storage site Why it matters: The 6-3 ruling is a win for the commission's efforts to make progress in finding a home for high-level spent fuel from commercial reactors — a longtime source of gridlock among federal and state
Supreme Court Backs Temporary Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Site The US Supreme Court left intact a federal plan to store as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary site in west Texas over the objections of local landowners and oil and
Nuclear waste in Texas? What to know about Supreme Court ruling The high court rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site in the area on Wednesday, June 18, marking a victory for the federal government after a decade of legal wrangling by the state of
US Supreme Court greenlights nuclear waste license in Texas HOUSTON, June 19: The U S Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Texas can not challenge a federal approval of a privately-owned temporary nuclear waste storage site, as the state is not a party to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)’s licensing proceeding The decision reversed a ruling by the federal appeals court in New Orleans that invalidated the license the NRC had granted for the