The Supreme Court ruled against Texas and landowners who challenged a plan to store thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste at a facility in the state.

At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to 8 million residents — millions of pounds of waste are stranded, entombed in concrete, waiting for the federal government to figure out what the bloody heck to do with it.

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear power plants.

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons. But it has enriched nuclear fuel to levels that put it within weeks of having enough fissile material for a bomb. Still, Iran hasn’t proved it can build a reliable nuclear device or miniaturize one to fit atop a ballistic missile.

President Donald Trump has dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon before the latest conflict with Israel