MORE ON NEWS 3 | SafeNest seeking luggage for domestic violence victims to transition out of shelter Yucca Mountain in Nye County was first designated as a nuclear waste depository back in 1987.

granted to Holtec International for the facility in Lea County, New Mexico, is tied up in court proceedings. But officials for the state of Texas said that Yucca Mountain is the government's plan ...

The justices worried that allowing oil and gas companies and the Lone Star State to upend a private nuclear waste facility would open the door to endless litigation.

The case focuses on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a project to store spent nuclear fuel at a remote site in ...

Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...

A private company aims to build a nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas. Trains would likely carry the spent fuel ...

"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

The Supreme Court will consider a dispute over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's license allowing thousands of metric ...

WASHINGTON — The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada ... to store spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County, Texas, for up to 40 years.