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Texas is taking a fight over the country's nuclear waste to the Supreme Court.
The issue, a Not In My Backyard dilemma involving toxic radioactive nuclear waste, has been swirling for decades. The latest flashpoint, which hits the Supreme Court on Wednesday, involves a proposed storage site in West Texas.
A law passed in 1982 was supposed to have created a permanent dumping ground for nuclear power plant waste − considered dangerous for thousands of years after its produced. Four decades later, no permanent solution exists. The court will hear a challenge to the government’s ability to license private companies to temporarily store that spent nuclear fuel. Texas and private companies want to be able to sue over that.
