With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting ...

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people of our state are still waiting for meaningful action.

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 ...

“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to ...

At the California power plant, some 3.55 million pounds of waste is stored in dozens of canisters at the north end of the facility.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the ...

The Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002. But each time plans resurfaced, plans stalled because of ...

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 Assembly adopted, 28-7, today a resolution to amend the state constitution to eliminate the $3 poll tax. If the Senate ...

David Wright, the new chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, inherits a pivotal moment for the nuclear industry, which ...

In this week's D.C. Download, many of Trump's orders are intentionally vague, but they’ve certainly spooked many of the ...