With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting place for America’s nuclear byproducts. But the project has faced legal, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people ...

Nuclear energy, and ... just waiting for it to be sufficiently decayed for storage in low level waste disposal like Yucca mountain (or reprocessed, but that is yet another confusing story).

But even though the first nuclear plant in the U.S. opened ... permanent repository in Nevada called Yucca Mountain had been slated to take the waste but the Obama administration cut off funding ...

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 ...

“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 as it reviews ...