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

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.

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 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 ...

But even as Texas touts plans to become the nation’s next-generation nuclear ... and hazardous waste storage site is seen just beyond the Texas-New Mexico border in Andrews, Texas.

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 ...

Roughly 91,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial power plants ... The facility would be constructed in Andrews County, Texas, which is west of Dallas and less than a mile from the ...

AUSTIN (KMID/KPEJ)- 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 ...

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