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 ...

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County ... federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 ...

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 ...

The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will ...

Nuclear waste is one of the deadliest materials on earth, containing radioactive materials that emit ionising radiation which can cause severe damage to living tissues and DNA and increase the ...

The commission and ISP reiterated that the Andrews County facility would only be an interim solution while the Yucca Mountain project remains stalled. Several conservative justices appeared dubious ...

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.