Imagine that you proposed marriage and your beloved replied yes, but on one condition: The marriage would have to be guaranteed free of problems on Earth and in the world beyond. Even a fool in love ...

A half century after initial disposal payments were made, America’s commercial nuclear waste remains exactly where it started ...

As Congress battles over whether to bury nuclear waste in Nevada, lawmakers on Saturday visited Yucca Mountain to tour the mothballed exploratory tunnel in the geological formation 95 miles northwest ...

Yucca Mountain is back on the bargaining table on Capitol Hill. And if the nuclear waste repository in Nevada gets back on track — and that’s a big “if,” considering the controversial site has been ...

An attempt to reopen the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada, where it was built to store nuclear waste, was recently shot down in Congress. The state’s refusal to become the nation’s central repository ...

Jack Spencer is a Senior Research Fellow for Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Senator Harry Reid’s (D–NV) re-election campaign against Sharron Angle provides a historic new ...

The President’s budget requests $120 million for the Department of Energy (DOE) “to restart licensing activities for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and initiate a robust interim storage ...

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We’re on our way to Yucca Mountain. And there are some things you should know before ...

Catherine Cortez Masto made her first trip to Yucca Mountain as a U.S. senator Friday to highlight how little has changed since her last visit. With a CBS News crew in tow, the Nevada Democrat and ...

The House is moving to approve an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say a bill slated ...

In Walter M. Miller's post-nuke sci-fi classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, there are no books. Literate people are killed. And underground monks work to preserve what little pre-war knowledge they can ...