The Trump administration is seeking to jumpstart nuclear energy in the United States by having at least three small reactors ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against challenges from Texas legislators and landowners to a temporary nuclear waste ...

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River ...

The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing in his dissenting opinion in Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, accused the court's majority of indulging in "fantasies" by dismissing the challengers' ...

The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Wednesday a legal challenge by the state of Texas and oil industry interests to the ...

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear power plants.