RENO — Nevada asked the federal government Tuesday to resume a licensing process that will allow state officials to continue their decades-long fight to finally kill the nuclear repository proposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Yucca Mountain showing coring activities in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy) A victory by Donald ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected ...

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 ...

May 30, 2003 — The shape of a U.S. Senate hearing was thrown into the air after one witness and possibly a second declined to testify on allegations of problems within the Yucca Mountain Project. Sens ...

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 ...

DOWN UNDER: A worker calls in from a Yucca Mountain tunnel HARSH: A bird’s eye view of the desert surrounding a shadowy Yucca Mountain IN CONTROL: Harry Reid and Tom Daschle in Las Vegas last month ...

The recent letter to the editor in the Aiken Standard regarding Yucca Mountain – “Nuclear isn’t the way forward” on Dec. 5 – was based on inaccurate facts and provided no alternative to Yucca Mountain ...