The nuclear reactor vessel from the San Onofre nuclear plant, which will be the largest and heaviest object ever moved on a Nevada road, is heading for Las Vegas by rail.
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Nevada’s members of Congress are wary of President Trump’s new Energy Department nominee, fearing he will favor the plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Trump announced on Thursday.
It would allow the Energy Department to prepare Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste, but the House nor Senate budgets include funding for the project.
A Senate committee approved an Energy Department spending bill without any money to revive the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project.
Companies specializing in nuclear demolition and radioactive waste storage are buying up aging U.S. reactors and promising to decommission them in dramatically less time than their utility owners had planned.
At a roundtable meeting with reporters on Friday, Rosen discussed her plans as the Silver State’s next senator and the challenges of working in a divided Congress.
A federal appeals court has tossed out a lawsuit by the state of Texas that sought to force a licensing decision on the proposed nuclear waste storage project at Yucca Mountain.
A processing center for radioactive waste in Tennessee has made its first shipment in five years to the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository, marking another milestone as the U.S. gets its multibillion-dollar cleanup program back on track.
If licensing proceedings for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada’s Nye County, arguments will be based on arcane computer models of what might or might not happen over a million years.