LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Days after President Donald Trump sent out a tweet seemingly reversing his position on Yucca Mountain, Gov. Steve Sisolak says he hand-delivered a letter to the Trump administration ...

Some Congressional Reps — carrying bags of money from the nuclear industry — want to resurrect the cancelled Yucca Mountain dump project for high-level radioactive waste, 90 miles from Las Vegas. I’ve ...

Last week, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) essentially said that the proposed Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada would probably be OK for storing our Nation’s high-level nuclear waste ...

WASHINGTON — Late spring means short sleeves, schoolchildren preparing for summer vacation, and the annual push by Yucca Mountain supporters in Congress to revive the dormant nuclear waste project.

Nuclear novelties neighbor Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Sedan Crater was formed with a 100-kiloton nuclear explosive device. The device was buried 635 feet below the desert alluvium and was fired at the ...

People walk into the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour of the proposed radioactive waste dump near Mercury, Nev., 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas in April 2015. (John ...

WASHINGTON — A congressional tour of Yucca Mountain last weekend spurred Las Vegas business leaders to fan out across the nation’s capital Wednesday and lobby lawmakers and the Trump administration ...

We often have difficulty finding common ground with the Trump administration, but when it comes to pursuing Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository for nuclear waste, we are of one mind: Get it done.

The Trump administration and Congress seem to be trying to raise Yucca Mountain from the dead. Yucca Mountain is the site of a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada that was halted in ...

The Yucca Mountain radioactive dump may have been officially 'cancelled', writes John LaForge, and with very good reason. But like all those zombies out for Hallowe'en last night, it's not dead yet, ...

Nevada's anti-nuclear activists inadvertently received good news from the Department of Energy recently. The requirements to run DOE's simulation - on whether the proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevada ...

CARSON CITY — U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto raised concerns at a U.S. Senate hearing today about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump outside Las Vegas, including its proximity to Nellis ...