Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev., in 2018. (John ...

The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects is hoping federal efforts to find states willing to host sites that can handle the full nuclear lifecycle will steer nuclear waste storage away from Nevada.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The State of Nevada is reopening licensing proceedings for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in an effort to "end the failed project for good," Attorney General Aaron D ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository may have been dormant for years, but some lawmakers are now pushing to revive it. Washington state Congresswoman Cathy McMorris ...

The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional delegation and the Western Shoshone, it's a question that doesn't go away.

Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill that would repeal the law establishing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The Jobs Not Waste Act would not ...

The president, eyeing the battleground state of Nevada, has made clear he opposes a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, reversing a policy that was made in his name. By Maggie Haberman Sixty years ...

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown has backtracked on his position regarding the controversial plan to turn Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository. Brown, the presumed frontrunner in the ...

Democratic presidential candidates are mostly united in their opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, which faces significant resistance in Nevada, a key early caucus state next year.

Editor’s note: As he traditionally does around this time every year, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand column to others. Today’s guest is Judy Treichel, a Las Vegas resident and the ...

Roger Henning, Ph.D., the onsite technical manager at Nuclear & Regulatory Support Services LLC, is a longtime friend and colleague of mine with great experience and expert knowledge of nuclear energy ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Consider one of the more peculiar campaign issues to surface in recent days: Yucca Mountain. Never heard of it ...