Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca ...

Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced a bill that would repeal the law establishing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The Jobs Not Waste Act would not ...

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico. But the ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s decades-long effort to stop high-level nuclear waste from being stored at Yucca Mountain is nearing a pivotal juncture as it heads toward all-but-certain victory, ...

“The truth is that the vast majority of those that have been elected to serve the people of Nevada, have opposed this project. Many of them are in Mr. Brown's own party,” former Clark County ...

Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its chief role: executing the law.

In March 2010 the Department of Energy informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the nation's independent nuclear regulatory body -- of its decision to withdraw the federal government's ...

After weeks of taking heat from opponents and critics Democrat and Republican alike for expressing a willingness to bring nuclear waste to Nevada, Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown on Saturday ...

* Nuclear waste should not be scattered - lawmakers * Lawmakers question Energy Secy Chu about decision * Expert panel hearings on nuclear waste set for Thursday * Energy Dept says keeping all records ...