U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Texas Nuclear Waste Storage Case

( March 6, 2025, 10:44 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 5 in two consolidated cases in which the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and government contractor Interim Storage Partners LLC (ISP) are challenging the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ interpretation of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and elements of the Hobbs Act that the NRC used when it vacated approval of a license allowing interim storage of spent nuclear fuel at a planned facility in west Texas....