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

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

“Nevada Republicans and Democrats have been fighting against storing dangerous nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain for decades, but Sam Brown agrees with the D.C. politicians in Congress who still ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

For the past three months, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review ... depository for spent fuel and radioactive waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain to a policy reversal that relies on on-site waste ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Chronicle published a guest column by Shannon James on 03/22/25 titled, Montana's ...