View of Yucca Mountain showing coring activities in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy) A victory by Donald Trump in November could revive America’s long-shuttered nuclear weapons ...

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected ...

Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill that would repeal the law establishing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The Jobs Not Waste Act would not ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. But the ...

* Nuclear waste should not be scattered - lawmakers * Lawmakers question Energy Secy Chu about decision * Expert panel hearings on nuclear waste set for Thursday * Energy Dept says keeping all records ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s decades-long effort to stop high-level nuclear waste from being stored at Yucca Mountain is nearing a pivotal juncture as it heads toward all-but-certain victory, ...

Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its chief role: executing the law.

Jan. 10, 2002 — Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has made his recommendation to President Bush that the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada should be used as a permanent storage site for the country’s ...

May 30, 2003 — The shape of a U.S. Senate hearing was thrown into the air after one witness and possibly a second declined to testify on allegations of problems within the Yucca Mountain Project. Sens ...

In March 2010 the Department of Energy informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the nation's independent nuclear regulatory body -- of its decision to withdraw the federal government's ...