Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

* 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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — Three examiners were removed from their audit positions after they uncovered new quality control flaws in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, one of the examiners said. Their efforts ...