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 ...

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

“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 ...

“Yucca Mountain remains a viable option for waste ... and although the former president has tried to distance himself from ...

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 ...

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 ...

2. It calls for taking another look at Yucca Mountain. In 2002, the Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a federal nuclear waste repository.