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 ...

YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev. — Standing before the yawning, black mouth of the entrance to the Yucca Mountain repository site, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) made an aggressive pitch yesterday for storing the ...

Editor’s note: As he does every August, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand column to others. Today’s guest is Bob Halstead, who recently retired after a 30-year career as executive ...

Although federal law designates the Nevada site as a permanent repository for the country’s inventory of spent nuclear fuel, it’s remained little more than a construction site for more than a decade.

Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill that would repeal the law establishing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The Jobs Not Waste Act would not ...

President Trump yesterday signaled his administration will reverse course and abandon the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — a move that could pay off politically in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The final presidential debates take place Wednesday in Las Vegas. Given the location, a controversial issue sure to come up is that of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The repository is ...

Roger Henning, Ph.D., the onsite technical manager at Nuclear & Regulatory Support Services LLC, is a longtime friend and colleague of mine with great experience and expert knowledge of nuclear energy ...

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 ...