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 ...

With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting ...

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 ...

In the first week of the 83rd Legislature, lawmakers spent time discussing issues specific to Nevada. National issues also ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

After more than four decades of intense struggle, the United States found itself in an unenviable and awkward position by 2015: It no longer had even the barest blueprint of how to dispose of its ...

At the California power plant, some 3.55 million pounds of waste is stored in dozens of canisters at the north end of the facility.