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US Supreme Court clears the way for nuclear waste storage in Texas by: Ford McCracken Posted: Jun 17, 2025 / 01:38 PM CDT Updated: Jun 18, 2025 / 10:08 AM CDT ...

For years, state Republicans have fought plans to allow the temporary storage site in Texas. In 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning the disposal of high-level nuclear waste in Texas.

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 ...

The facility would be built in Andrews County, Texas, located west of Dallas and near the New Mexico border. The area is already home to a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste.

The commission approved temporary storage sites in Texas in 2021 because nuclear power plants were running out of room and the permanent underground storage facility planned for Nevada’s Yucca ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company that would run the site, Interim Storage Partners LLC, also defended the plan. Interim is a joint venture owned by a unit of Orano SA and J.F. Lehman & Co.’s Waste Control Specialists LLC.

The NRC granted the Texas license to Interim Storage Partners, based in Andrews, Texas, for a facility that could take up to 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) of spent nuclear fuel rods from power ...