The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects is hoping federal efforts to find states willing to host sites that can handle the ...

During the campaign, Barack Obama took a stand against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. That boosted his appeal in Nevada, where the facility is located. Most residents -- particularly ...

28 September 2006 — U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici introduced a new bill that would speed up the process to deliver nuclear waste to the Yucca Mountain Repository ...

The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. It began collecting money from energy customers for the ...

Thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will be dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years are piling up at 131 power plants and research labs across the US. Federal law requires that it ...

WASHINGTON — Federal safety analysts have found a flaw in the plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — the government does not have the necessary water rights to operate at the Nevada site. In a ...

The Trump administration is advancing a plan that would concentrate roughly 100,000 tons of the nation’s most radioactive waste in a handful of communities willing to host it indefinitely. The ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. But the ...

19-April-2007 — Bob Loux, executive director of Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects, urged the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today to reject the U.S. Department of Energy’s plan to claim ...