Fort Worth warns of ‘catastrophic’ incident if Supreme Court allows nuclear waste transit, storage
April 26, 2025 12:00 pm
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. On its way to a facility operated by Interim Storage Partners LLC, the waste would travel through Fort Worth’s Tower 55, one of the nation’s busiest freight and passenger rail hubs.
