Las Vegas Sun video: Obama and Bill Richardson respond to questions about creating a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain (about 90 miles north of Las Vegas) during the Nov. 15, 2007 ...

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 ...

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

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 radioactive waste specialist from the United States says nuclear waste disposal sites place a giant bullseye on an area, as well as all communities along the transportation route, and ...

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 ...

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 started ...

In February, President Donald Trump seemed to backtrack on his own administration’s attempted revival of a plan to dump the nation’s nuclear waste at a site called Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The Obama ...

The long-standing U.S. scientific board had been created to bring more expertise to the challenge of radioactive waste. For the past three months, the Nuclear ... Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to ...