Nevada filed a motion to continue a licensing effort for Yucca Mountain in the hopes of finally killing the decades-old plan to bury high-level nuclear waste in the state.
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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 states fear interim waste storage sites could become permanent, and say Yucca Mountain remains the country’s only designated repository.
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
The U.S. House of Representatives took an initial step on Monday toward not funding the proposed nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain for fiscal year 2022.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm hosted a series of discussions with Nevada elected officials and advocacy groups during her visit to Las Vegas on Thursday and Friday.
President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $6 trillion budget that relies in part on new taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
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.