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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RENO — Nevada asked the federal government Tuesday to resume a licensing process that will allow state officials to continue their decades-long fight to finally kill the nuclear repository proposed ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s most powerful congressional ally in the fight to stop a federal nuclear waste dump near Las Vegas is backing off his pledge to kill the project in the Senate. Senate Majority ...

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 ...

All the new timetables in the world are not going to correct the mismanagement, fraud and scientific failings that have become a hallmark of the Yucca Mountain Project. Nuclear waste can safely remain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five U.S. Congress members are heading to the mothballed site of a proposed national radioactive waste dump in the Nevada desert, amid new talk about a decades-old problem – where to dispose of spent ...

In the high-stakes fight over the administration's proposal to bury nuclear waste in the Nevada desert, President Bush may have the votes, but his opponents have the glitter. Or put another way: ...