The Texas government's recent loss in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling may prove to be a long-term victory for the state — at least in the eyes of those who see nuclear energy as a viable and desirable ...

The U.S. nuclear-power renaissance is plunging ahead without a long-term solution for some 92,500 metric tons of spent fuel piled up at power plant sites around the country.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas didn’t have the right to sue to stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a temporary license for spent nuclear fuel storage.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a state's challenge to a federal license allowing a private company to store spent nuclear fuel away from a nuclear facility. In a 6-3 ruling, the ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas didn’t have the right to sue to stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a temporary license for spent nuclear fuel storage.

Excavating equipment at the site of the Onkalo repository project, the world’s first permanent spent-nuclear-fuel storage facility, deep in granite bedrock in Finland, in 2017.

In the bedrock here, at a depth of 430 meters, testing is underway. Storage of spent fuel involves placing spent fuel rods inside copper canisters, which in turn have to be inserted into slots dug ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas didn’t have the right to sue to stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a temporary license for spent nuclear fuel storage.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas didn’t have the right to sue to stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a temporary license for spent nuclear fuel storage.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said Texas didn’t have the right to sue to stop the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from issuing a temporary license for spent nuclear fuel storage.