A resolution restating the Legislature’s opposition to any effort to license Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste dump was endorsed Monday by Gov. Brian Sandoval and Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
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Nevada will have an advocate in the American Gaming Association against any effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository northwest of Las Vegas.
Former state lawmaker Tom Hickey, who served 22 years as a Democrat and labor supporter in the Assembly and Senate from North Las Vegas, died Wednesday of a heart-related condition. He was 86.
Whatever caught fire Sunday in the state-owned radioactive waste dump at the US Ecology site near Beatty packed a powerful punch, Nevada’s chief fire marshal said Tuesday.
Though its sponsors insist it wasn’t their intent, a Nevada lands bill pending in Congress could throw up another roadblock to a Yucca Mountain Project.
Radioactive remnants from decades of nuclear bomb tests remain mostly in underground detonation sites at the Nevada National Security Site. That was the upshot of the annual environmental monitoring report presented Wednesday night by Department of Energy staff and contractors to a citizens panel known as the Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board.
A Utah lawmaker concerned about government spying on its citizens is questioning whether city water service should be cut off to a massive National Security Agency data storage facility outside Salt Lake City.
A federal appeals court ruling last week gave a green light to restart licensing of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site but without funding the process will remain stalled, Nevada Rep. Joe Heck said Tuesday.
In a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said he gave “long and serious consideration” to the Department of Energy’s plan to dispose of a potent, bomb-usable cocktail of uranium-tainted waste in a landfill at the Nevada National Security Site but has decided to oppose it.
NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko on Friday denied accusations he abuses women in the workplace, a charge that has resurfaced in the latest fight in Congress over the nuclear safety agency.