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 ...

Congress selected Yucca Mountain in 1987 to become the nation’s permanent repository for nuclear waste generated by utility power plants and the military.

Nevada's Yucca Mountain facility should be used to store the nation's nuclear waste, and America should pay rent to the state to use it.

While the repository at Yucca would have generated jobs for Nevada, the reality is that the program was still flawed. Reid now has the opportunity to establish a new path forward on Yucca Mountain.

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.

A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes ...

President Trump's tweet about Yucca Mountain suggested the White House is abandoning the nation's proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste.

More Americans should care about nuclear-waste management than actually do. That’s because it’s an issue that has cost taxpayers more than $6 billion in court battles and is on track to cost ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down two proposals to prevent development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Although federal law designates the Nevada site as a permanent repository for the country’s inventory of spent nuclear fuel, it’s remained little more than a construction site for more than a decade.

Francis Chung/POLITICO 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.

The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site on the Texas-New Mexico border.