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State lawmakers will consider draft legislation this week that would allow manufacturers of “advanced nuclear reactors” to store high-level radioactive waste at their Wyoming facilities. It would be ...

A proposal to store spent nuclear fuel at a West Texas site along the southeast New Mexico border was dealt another blow in federal court last week as officials sought to reinstate a vacated license ...

Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court. The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look ...

The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Some of Wyoming's most contentious energy issues, including nuclear waste storage, fell by the wayside in the budget session.

A waste storage site has had its operational permit revoked to "protect human health", according to the Environment Agency ...