Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev., in 2018. (John ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository may have been dormant for years, but some lawmakers are now pushing to revive it. Washington state Congresswoman Cathy McMorris ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The State of Nevada is reopening licensing proceedings for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in an effort to "end the failed project for good," Attorney General Aaron D ...

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown has backtracked on his position regarding the controversial plan to turn Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository. Brown, the presumed frontrunner in the ...

The president, eyeing the battleground state of Nevada, has made clear he opposes a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, reversing a policy that was made in his name. By Maggie Haberman Sixty years ...

Editor’s note: As he traditionally does around this time every year, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand column to others. Today’s guest is Judy Treichel, a Las Vegas resident and the ...

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 ...

Amid the ongoing political fight over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, it’s easy to forget there’s a daunting legal battle looming, too. Amid the ongoing political fight over the ...

Roger Henning, Ph.D., the onsite technical manager at Nuclear & Regulatory Support Services LLC, is a longtime friend and colleague of mine with great experience and expert knowledge of nuclear energy ...

In a significant energy policy redirection, the Obama administration appears poised to pull the plug on funds for permanent nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. President Barack Obama’s ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Consider one of the more peculiar campaign issues to surface in recent days: Yucca Mountain. Never heard of it ...