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 ...

The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional delegation and the Western Shoshone, it's a question that doesn't go away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev., in 2018. (John ...

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 ...

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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Nevada has taken a new step toward permanently ending the long-stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository project. Attorney General Aaron Ford's office said Tuesday that the ...

Democrats seized on the hot-button issue, accusing Republican Sam Brown of wanting to turn Nevada into the “nation’s dumping ground for toxic waste.” Recently surfaced comments from a Republican ...

The final presidential debates take place Wednesday in Las Vegas. Given the location, a controversial issue sure to come up is that of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The repository is ...

Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste have been accumulating in the United States for nearly 60 years, when nuclear materials were first used to produce electricity and to develop ...

The Yucca Mountain project’s predictions are based on a computer model called a Monte Carlo simulation. If that evokes eerie echoes of the gambling down on the Strip, 100 miles to the south, never ...

The president, eyeing the battleground state of Nevada, has made clear he opposes a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, reversing a policy that was made in his name. By Maggie Haberman Sixty years ...