Without a miracle of some sort, it is all over. Yucca Mountain, the federal government’s choice for storing nuclear waste from Cold War bomb production and power plants, will never open.The project ...

The thing about Yucca Mountain is the momentum. During the Reagan administration, the proposed nuclear waste repository got its biggest boost, as Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. In 1987, ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published the final two of a five-volume series of its safety evaluation report for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Each volume covered ...

A federal appeals court has ruled against most of the state of Nevada's objections to a proposed underground nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But the ...

Citing its backing for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain permanent spent nuclear waste repository in Nevada, the Trump administration has asked a federal court to reject a petition filed by Texas in ...

The move comes decades after the department first began studying the site, and six years after President Bush approved its development. The project has spent those years mired in lawsuits and beset by ...

Before a bill to fund the federal government even makes it to the floor, some in the House are already ceding ground on funding for the completion of a license review of Yucca Mountain. Despite the ...

2002-04-09T16:12:45-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgMembers spoke to reporters about their opposition to storing nuclear waste ...