The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will ...

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 ...

Xcel wants to continue operating the plant into the 2050s. It’s requesting to store an additional 34 casks of spent fuel at the site. But spent fuel storage has a history of controversy at the plant ...

According to a report by the Associated Press (AP), roughly 100,000 tons (90,000 metric tons) of used fuel rods, some dating back to the 1980s, are accumulating at current and for ...

and encouraged interim waste storage by private energy companies at power plants while construction moved forward. Texas argues that because neither law makes explicit mention of storing nuclear ...

Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

The waste was meant to be kept there temporarily before being deposited deep underground. The NRC has said that the temporary storage sites are needed because existing nuclear plants are running out ...

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.

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor ...

Roughly 91,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial power plants are currently in private storage, both at or away from nuclear reactor sites, according to the U.S. government. And with ...

Minnesota lawmakers are once again debating whether the state should lift a three-decade ban on new nuclear power plants in the state as a way to work toward a clean energy future.