( June 18, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 18 that Texas and the owner of hundreds of acres of land near the proposed site of a planned interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in west Texas are not “parties aggrieved” under the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) and elements of the Hobbs Act in determining that they were not eligible to obtain judicial review in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of a license issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of the facility....