Texas Scorecard By Joseph Trimmer March 7, 2025
Federal law requires spent nuclear fuel to be stored underground in Nevada.Attorney General Ken Paxton argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that federal officials are violating the law in their efforts to store nuclear waste in Texas.
In 1982, Congress passed a law establishing procedures for evaluating and selecting sites for geologic repositories for nuclear waste, later designating a permanent site in Nevada.
According to Paxton, the federal government’s attempts to authorize private “interim storage projects” to store nuclear waste in the Texas Permian Basin violates that law.
Paxton’s office has highlighted the risk of accidents and terrorist attacks posed by moving radioactive materials to the basin through highly populated areas of the state.
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has no lawful authority to irresponsibly dump thousands of metric tons of radioactive nuclear waste on top of the vital oil fields in Texas,” stated Paxton.
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