Nuclear Waste

Opponents said the legislation wasn’t strong enough to stop highly radioactive materials from coming to Texas and instead amounted to a financial giveaway to a West Texas nuclear waste company.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the…

By Travis Bubenik, Courthouse News Service(CN) — A federal review of a plan to move highly radioactive nuclear waste to rural West Texas from sites across…

By Mitch BordenThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received some 23,000 comments as it decides whether to approve a temporary high-level nuclear waste…

Earlier this month, the House of Congress passed a bill to move forward on plans for building out the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada. Some legislators…

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to block the merger between Dallas’ Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions. Judge Sue L. Robinson’s decision…

[gallery ids="29701,29699,29700,29698"] Nuclear Waste -- a problem that’s been looming over the country for several decades. Unable to find a permanent…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the early stages of an environmental review for Waste Control Specialists’ application to expand its low-level…

Marfa Public Radio and WCAI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts have embarked on a first-of-its-kind host exchange experiment called Radio Hometown: Two…

The West Texas nuclear waste site in Andrews County near the New Mexico border is being sold to an international nuclear waste processing and disposal…