The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court wrestled with whether to move forward with plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at a site in Andrews, Texas and parts of rural New Mexico even as some justices ...

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 ...

Texas Attorney General Ken ... in issuing a license to allow thousands of tons of nuclear waste to be housed temporarily at a site in Andrews County near the New Mexico border.

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

Other countries have identified locations for permanent storage of nuclear waste, but American lawmakers ... spent fuel storage facility in Andrews, Texas. Power plants could send up to 40,000 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state ...

Heavy earth moving equipment clear soft caliche from the proposed federal waste disposal facility at Waste Control Specialists, a nuclear waste facility on the Texas/New Mexico border.(Tom Fox ...

The Waste Control Specialists site in Andrews County in West Texas ... Spokespersons for Abbott, a strong supporter of the Texas nuclear sector, did not respond to a query, nor did the Texas ...

“If not now, then all the spent nuclear fuel in America and maybe even foreign waste will end up in Texas and New Mexico indefinitely.” A panel of federal judges ruled in favor of Texas in ...