Nevada Democrats failed Wednesday night to remove language from the House fiscal 2018 spending bill that would prohibit the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in their state from being closed. EPA ...
A 1995 photo of the underground exploratory studies facility at Yucca Mountain. (Photo from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.) The Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects is hoping federal efforts to ...
In March 2010 the Department of Energy informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the nation's independent nuclear regulatory body -- of its decision to withdraw the federal government's ...
WASHINGTON - A House panel said Thursday it is investigating the Obama administration's decision to halt plans to bury the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada. The investigation by the Republican-led ...
YAKIMA — Washington state filed suit Tuesday to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, marking the latest clash in a long-standing dispute ...
The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. It began collecting money from energy customers for the ...
Energy Secretary Rick Perry traveled to Capitol Hill last month, asking Congress for $28 billion in funding for everything from nuclear weapons to clean-coal research. Yet one of the most ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) - An industry lobbying group has unveiled a plan in Washington to speed the opening of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Draft legislation by the Nuclear Energy ...