Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the nation’s nuclear waste repository have long received opposition from both sides of the aisle. But, is that changing?
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Starting on Palm Sunday, walkers gathered at the Atomic Museum and walked to the Nevada National Security Site . About 30 marchers took part on the final day, Good Friday.
A half-metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium secretly shipped into Nevada in 2019 has been removed four years ahead of schedule.
The administration’s budget is facing headwinds in Congress because of a new tax on millionaires that Biden says will lower the deficit over the next decade.
The Department of Energy plan would send waste to jurisdictions where state and local governments support interim storage.
A federal investigative report on nuclear waste disposal is recommending Congress amend a decades-old law designating Yucca Mountain as the sole location for disposal
Legislation that would require the federal government to receive consent from state, local and tribal entities before constructing a permanent repository for nuclear waste was filed in the House on Tuesday by Democrat Dina Titus of Nevada.
Seventy years ago, an atomic blast detonated in a remote, sprawling swath of desert known as Frenchman Flat was seen and felt in Las Vegas, 65 miles to the southeast.
Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the Western Shoshone Nation, has died.
Bob Halstead, who fought Yucca Mountain on behalf of the state of Nevada for decades, has decided to retire as the federal government puts plans for the waste repository on hold.