For the first time in decades, the United States is taking serious steps to rebuild its nuclear energy capacity. Recent ...

As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are reaffirming they want a say.

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

Court ruling allows interim nuclear waste storage in Texas, but the U.S. still has no long-term plan for its 90,000 metric tons of spent fuel.

The US Energy Department dug an horizontal 25-foot-diameter tunnel under Yucca Mountain to determine its suitability as a geologic repository for the nation's commercial spent nuclear fuel and ...

Opposition to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain has united Nevadans across political lines — until now. A Senate candidate has spoken favorably about the idea.

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 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.

Solving the rock-hard problem of nuclear waste disposal Finland avoided some of the mistakes made elsewhere and opened its waste repository.

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.

In a bid for Nevada votes, President Donald Trump has rejected Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository site. Even so, there are cheaper options than Yucca Mountain that should be explored.

President Donald Trump has made a U-turn on funding the long-delayed and long-debated Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — but it’s unclear what his decision means for moving ...