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

More than 85,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has piled up at more than 100 locations in the U.S. There is no viable ...

That’s because the federal government has not found a place for the waste to go. Yucca Mountain in Nevada had been slated as a permanent waste site but the Obama administration cut off funding for ...

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 ...

A sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev., in 2018. (John Locher / Associated Press) More than 3.5 million pounds of highly ...

In 2008 the U.S. Department of Energy applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to construct a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste ...

THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT TAKES ON the politically radioactive issue of nuclear-waste disposal, which the past several administrations have tried and failed to resolve. The only federally designated ...

Yucca Mountain appears to be a nonstarter – again. The Biden administration, days old now, “opposes the use” of the controversial repository “for storage of nuclear waste,” Jennifer Granholm, the ...

The view from the top of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility, located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. Robert Gauthier TNS Reversing yet again his stance on the project, President Donald Trump ...

Reversing yet again his stance on the project, President Trump dumped the nuclear waste repository planned at the Nevada Test Site in a tweet last week in an attempt to win Nevada in the 2020 election ...

The president’s fiscal 2021 budget will not include funding for the licensing of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository, a senior administration official confirmed to CQ Roll Call on ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he opposes the long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, reversing his policy on a project on which the ...