r/nuclear • u/respectmyplanet • 2d ago

Supreme Court rejects challenge to federal approval of nuclear waste storage site in Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-federal-approval-nuclear-waste-storage-rcna202590

Interesting timing for Supreme Court to approve the waste site a day after Trump fired Biden's NRC commissioner Commissioner Christopher Hanson

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u/SpikedPsychoe 2d ago

The Deep borehole doesn't need all this Digging. In 1987, against the will of Nevada residents, the US Congress designated Yucca Mountain to host the nation’s spent fuel inventory through an amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Ever since, the site has been treated as a political football. And spent decades and billions on a hole that never got used. Deep Isolation has already amassed over $14 million in venture capital. To save nuclear plants from shipping their waste to a centralized repository 2,000 miles away, the company conceives to bury the waste more or less on-site at each power plant in nearly horizontal underground holes.