U.S. Rep. John Shimkus came to Nevada Tuesday with an unpopular message: Why he’s pushing a bill that would revive the Yucca Mountain project.
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House legislation to revive Yucca Mountain would have no significant impact on spending over 10 years, but the uncertainty of the project makes long-term cost increases hard to predict, a report by Congressional auditors finds.
Some energy industry officials and lawmakers at House subcommittee hearing on Tuesday urge Congress to look for interim solutions until a permanent facility can be built.
Nevada is ramping up its fight against the proposed Yucca Mountain waste dump, with a contract for nearly $1 million for legal services up for a vote on Tuesday.
Foes in the 35-year-old debate over the safety of the proposed repository for the nation’s high-level radioactive waste, stake out staked out familiar positions Wednesday in a panel discussion at a radioactive waste conference in Las Vegas.
The Trump administration is committed to finding a long-term disposal solution for the nation’s nuclear waste, but Congress first needs to fund the effort, a top Department of Energy official said Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Nevada’s opposition to Trump administration efforts to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project will be underscored Tuesday at a Las Vegas conference on radioactive waste where government and industry experts will gather.
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.
Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette was sworn into office Tuesday as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission prepared for possible resumed hearings on a license application to store high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
An official who will play a key role in any effort to revive the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain was confirmed overwhelmingly by the Senate on Thursday, despite opposition from Nevada’s two senators.