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 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.

Brown’s openness to restarting work at Yucca Mountain is backed by public officials in Nye County, a sparsely-populated area directly surrounding the Nevada Test Site. In 2019, county ...

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 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.