The U.S. Supreme Court considered on March 5 whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) may authorize a private company to store spent nuclear fuel at a Texas site.
In the case, the court ordered two similar lawsuits—NRC v. Texas and Interim Storage Partners LLC v. Texas—to be considered together.
Spent nuclear fuel is piling up at reactors throughout the United States, with some estimates predicting the country may have a processing backlog of more than 200,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel by 2050, according to the petition then-U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed with the Supreme Court on behalf of the NRC in June 2024….
Supreme Court Hears Dispute Over Nuclear Waste Storage in Texas Oil Field
