Nuclear waste may yet be stored in Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The entrance to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository located in Nye County, Nev., is shown, Feb. 22, 2004. A federal appeals ...

An attempt to reopen the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada, where it was built to store nuclear waste, was recently shot down in Congress.The state’s refusal to become the nation’s central ...

The Trump administration favors storing the nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, and the president’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year includes $120 million to revive the stalled project.

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.

The thing about Yucca Mountain is the momentum. During the Reagan administration, the proposed nuclear waste repository got its biggest boost, as Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. In ...

Currently, the DOE controls and manages spent nuclear fuel policy and the Yucca Mountain repository. A new Reid plan should put Nevada in control. Such a plan could garner support in Nevada.

Efforts to restart the Yucca Mountain project in 2018, which cleared the House but failed in the Senate, demonstrate that “it is possible to build bipartisan support” for a nuclear waste repository, ...

In the 1980s, Congress designated Yucca Mountain as one of two future locations to permanently store the thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel generated by the U.S. reactor fleet. The project was ...

The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear fuel for decades.

Yucca Mountain is once again a hot topic on Capitol Hill, as Republicans and even some Democrats are reconsidering reviving the long-dormant nuclear waste repository.

In 2021, the commission approved temporary storage sites in Texas due to nuclear power plants running out of space, and the planned permanent underground storage facility in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

Government employees may have falsified documents related to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, the Energy Department said Wednesday, a development that could jeopardize the project. IE 11 ...