The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural ...

"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

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.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court wrestled with whether to move forward with plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at a site ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico ... Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain ...

New Mexico is the location of the only permanent nuclear waste storage: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad ... A proposed facility in Nevada, Yucca Mountain, has been long delayed ...

The NRC has also approved a license for a group that intends to build a similar project in southeastern New Mexico ... have stacked up at nuclear power plants in 35 states around the country ...

The federal government says the Texas plaintiffs are misreading the law in a way that would disrupt the nuclear power industry, which supplies about one-fifth of the nation’s electricity. Since 1980, ...