Fort Worth warns of ‘catastrophic’ incident if Supreme Court allows nuclear waste transit, storage

Fort Worth warns of ‘catastrophic’ incident if Supreme Court allows nuclear waste transit, storage

Trains carrying nuclear waste — with more radioactivity than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, according to a Fort Worth legal brief — could travel through the city to a West Texas waste facility if the U.S. Supreme Court allows a proposal to move forward.In 2021, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a permit allowing high-level nuclear waste to be transported and stored in the Permian Basin area for up to 40 years.…