Supreme Court Shouldn’t Review Nuclear Storage Case, Texas Says

The US Supreme Court need not take up a lawsuit over the disposal of nuclear waste in Texas, because Congress has already explicitly directed where such waste should be stored in the U.S, a filing by the state’s attorney general said.

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a brief Wednesday a federal appeals court correctly rejected a Nuclear Regulatory Commission attempt to license the disposal of nuclear waste in Texas because the Atomic Energy Act clearly allows only one storage site, in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

“By no means can the commission solve its Yucca Mountain problem by disregarding clear ...