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 ...

A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes Nuclear ...

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.

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 ...

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 White House said Thursday that President Trump’s budget request for 2021 will not include funding for a controversial nuclear waste repository in Nevada, marking a reversal of the administration’s ...

Hillary goes negative on Obama and Edwards in a radio ad (script after the jump) up in Nevada at the moment, questioning the depth of their commitment to the top parochial issue in Nevada: the use of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...