LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s long crusade to block the creation of a national nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain has pitted the state against a bipartisan group of lawmakers across the country, but a ...

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The House is moving to approve an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say a bill slated ...

A 1995 photo of the underground exploratory studies facility at Yucca Mountain. (Photo from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.) The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects is hoping federal efforts to ...

WASHINGTON, DC, August 5, 2008 (ENS) - It will cost 38 percent more to build, operate and decommission the nation's first nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada than the federal government ...

Other highlights of Obama’s budget include a sharp reduction in funding for the nuclear waste dump Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The new budget removes virtually all of Yucca’s funding with the exception ...

LAS VEGAS – An American Indian drew applause during a public hearing on a proposed national nuclear waste dump when he accused the Energy Department of "environmental racism." "Transportation of waste ...

Nevada Democrats failed Wednesday night to remove language from the House fiscal 2018 spending bill that would prohibit the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in their state from being closed. EPA ...

WASHINGTON - Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday that he's confident the government's license application to build a nuclear-waste dump in Nevada will "stand up to any challenge anywhere." ...

hings have a grand scale out here. The Nuclear Test Site adjacent to this mountain is bigger than Rhode Island but smaller than Nellis Air Force Base, which also is adjacent. But the biggest thing is ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy will seek interest from U.S. states as soon as this week on storing nuclear waste in return for incentives to build nuclear reactors, a ...

U.S. scientists are developing an innovation that could reduce nuclear waste storage time by 99.7%, transmuting long-lived radioactive materials into shorter-lived isotopes.