With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting ...

It’s been more than 30 years since there were any discussions of storing nuclear waste in Colorado. Before revisiting that debate, it is important to understand the three major waste ...

said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However, the risks of transporting nuclear waste to another state poses an uncertain risk.

WASHINGTON D.C. (KOLO) - U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have reintroduced a bill to prevent the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. The Nuclear Waste Informed Consent ...

“Yucca Mountain,” according to Project 2025’s section on energy, “remains a viable option for waste management, and DOE should recommit to working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca ...

Carbondale resident George Wear provided a change of pace to the public comment period ahead of the regular agenda items at the Garfield County ...

“Over more than three decades and at every step in the process, the Yucca Mountain project has faltered because Nevadans do not want nuclear waste stored in our state,” Titus said in a statement.

The Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002. But each time plans resurfaced, plans stalled because of ...

Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca ...

At the California power plant, some 3.55 million pounds of waste is stored in dozens of canisters at the north end of the facility.

The failed effort to build a DGR at Yucca Mountain illustrates this paradigm. Originally, the Department of Energy was supposed to find two sites to store nuclear waste, one in the eastern and one ...