U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington has joined U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in advocating against a nuclear waste storage facility in Andrews ...

Texas, is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling holding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks licensing authority, ...

Congress had passed the standards for nuclear-waste disposal a year earlier with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. In a federal complaint filed on June 30 in Washington, Entergy says it has paid more than ...

The Commission has issued a license for a private company to operate such a facility on the Permian Basin, in Andrews County, Texas, but has no such authority under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

And he was right. The courts later struck down the project, finding that the Nuclear Waste Policy Act does not allow the agency to even license such private facilities far off-site from reactors.

Distrust over the federal government’s ability to build a permanent repository played a critical role in committee’s decision to kill controversial ‘temporary’ storage bill.

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear ...

The nuclear ... Reduction Act, which included tax breaks and other incentives for various nodes of the nuclear sector. Over in Europe, nuclear advocates are trying to push through policy ...