The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear ...

“Nevada Republicans and Democrats have been fighting against storing dangerous nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain for decades, but Sam Brown agrees with the D.C. politicians in Congress who still ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering arguments about temporary storage sites for the country's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...

A 1987 federal law named Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, as a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste – but political and legal challenges led to construction delays. Work on the site had barely ...

We’ve never quite figured out how to safely store all of that spent nuclear fuel. And it’s a problem that’s about to get ...

Some northwestern counties have proposed hosting a nuclear waste repository to buoy the economy amid coal plant and mine closures. • In 2002, Congress approved the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste ...

In 2002, the Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a federal nuclear waste repository. Efforts to move forward on the project have come up over the ...

For the past three months, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review ... depository for spent fuel and radioactive waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to a policy reversal that relies on on-site waste ...