The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution. The justices Wednesday reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the southwest Texas facility. The outcome should reinvigorate plans for a New Mexico facility. The licenses would allow the companies to operate the facilities for 40 years, with the possibility of a 40-year renewal. The court’s decision is not a final ruling in favor of the licenses but removes a major roadblock. Plans for a permanent underground storage facility in Nevada are stalled.

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Wednesday a legal challenge by the state of Texas and oil industry interests to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing of certain nuclear waste storag

In a 6-3 decision, the court said Texas and oil industry interests could not fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the site.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against the state of Texas and oil industry interests in their challenge to Nuclear Regulatory Commission authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities. The 6-3 ruling, authored by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reversed a lower court's decision declaring a license awarded by the NRC to a company called Interim Storage Partners to operate a nuclear waste storage in western Texas unlawful.

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The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in southwest Texas.

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the authority the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve a facility in Texas to store spent fuel.

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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.

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