Supreme Court Reviews Nuclear Waste
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Supreme Court steps into debate over where to store nuclear waste
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The Supreme Court will hear a decades -long dispute over what to do with nuclear waste.
The nuclear waste can remain radioactive and pose health risks for thousands of years .
Roughly 91,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial power plants are currently in private storage.
The case involves a license the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued in September 2021 to a company.
A decision from the Supreme Court is expected by the end of June .
Texas says Yucca Mountain is the government's plan for dealing with the thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste that continue to pile up.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued three licenses for temporary storage of spent fuel at privately owned facilities.
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