US EditionSupreme Court rejects challenge to federal approval of nuclear waste storage site in Texas
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Texas and several landowners, upholding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of a private company’s license to operate a site for storing nuclear waste in western Texas.
- The ruling followed challenges after a 2021 appeals court decision that declared the NRC lacked authority under the Atomic Energy Act to issue the license to Interim Storage Partners.
- In 2021, the NRC granted Interim Storage Partners a license to temporarily hold nuclear waste in above-ground, dry-cask facilities for up to 40 years, authorizing storage of nuclear material equivalent to several thousand metric tons due to the absence of a permanent disposal site.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that Texas and landowners were not parties entitled to judicial review because they failed to intervene earlier; Justices Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito dissented.
- The decision removes a major legal obstacle for temporary nuclear waste storage and may reinvigorate similar proposals in New Mexico amid stalled permanent site plans at Yucca Mountain.
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