Las Vegas Sun video: Obama and Bill Richardson respond to questions about creating a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain (about 90 miles north of Las Vegas) during the Nov. 15, 2007 ...

Yucca Mountain was officially designated as the nation’s nuclear waste “repository” during the administration of George W. Bush in 2002. But the project was the subject of legal and ...

It’s been more than 30 years since there were any discussions of storing nuclear waste in Colorado. Before revisiting that debate, it is important to understand the three major waste ...

The Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002. But each time plans resurfaced, plans stalled because of ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KOLO) - U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have reintroduced a bill to prevent the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. The Nuclear Waste Informed Consent ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...

“I asked Chris Wright to simply recognize that Yucca Mountain is an unworkable ... the construction of a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Storing the nation’s ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

In 2002, the Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a federal nuclear waste repository. Efforts to move forward on the project have come up over the ...

“Yucca Mountain,” according to Project 2025’s section on energy, “remains a viable option for waste management, and DOE should recommit to working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as it reviews ...