The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than ...

It argued that 67 nuclear waste storage casks on the Lacey property are not permanent structure and as temporary structures the casks are not subject to being taxed. Lacey's attorneys said that in ...

The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the ...

Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities can take decades ... the U.S. can be temporarily stored in special pools or in dry casks at nuclear-reactor sites, according to the Nuclear Regulatory ...

Eversource says costs at the plants do not affect its current electric rates, and ratepayers haven’t been paying for expenses ...

Roughly 91,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial power plants ... and up to 40,000 metric tons — of spent fuel in dry-cask, above-ground storage for up to 40 years.

The U.S. currently has no permanent disposal facility for that radioactive waste, the NRC says. That means all waste from nuclear reactors — including SMRs and microreactors that could be built in ...

The legislative push to build nuclear power plants in North Dakota could run up against a perennial problem -- the U.S. lacks ...

These include 73 commercial nuclear power plants and more than three dozen university and government facilities, according to ...

America’s nuclear waste is sealed away in coffin-like casks and spread out among more than 50 locations around the country. While other countries have developed plans to create a permanent home ...