The staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it will prepare a supplement to the Department of Energy’s environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed Nevada spent nuclear fuel ...

WASHINGTON — Nevada senators said Monday they plan to testify against the health risks and dangers of transporting and storing nuclear waste near Las Vegas when a Senate panel begins consideration of ...

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The amendment is a reaction to the NRC’s decision not to follow U.S. law that calls for an assessment of the facility within three years. The Obama administration opposes the Yucca Mountain project ...

WASHINGTON -- The dismantling of the Yucca Mountain repository plan advanced this week when the Department of Energy ordered the project's main contractors to stop most work and prepare further job ...

WASHINGTON — Visiting Nevada’s Yucca Mountain in 2011 was like walking through a ghost town, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., recalled in an interview. It was the year after the Obama administration ...

American officials have recommended that the limit on how much radioactive waste is stored at Yucca Mountain be removed as the country's waste management strategy reaches a crunch point. American ...

Some South Carolina legislators hope to use their clout to convince the Obama administration to reconsider a new energy policy that would abandon the Yucca Mountain site and leave dangerous waste at ...

THE Obama administration must not unilaterally discard 30 years and billions of dollars spent studying and preparing Yucca Mountain as a repository for the nation’s nuclear waste. Two of Washington’s ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s eight-year effort to keep a nuclear waste dump out of his home state of Nevada could soon become much more difficult. Since 2007, Reid has used his powerful Senate ...

At best, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on Yucca Mountain throws the whole process back up in the air. The court’s decision Tuesday calls for the licensing process to continue at the nuclear ...