The United States carved a tunnel system into Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert, spent nearly $15 billion on the effort, ...

NYE COUNTY, NV — In a vote of 340-72, the House voted Thursday to revive a plan to create a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Nye County. It's a ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have continuously assured Nevadans that their interest in nuclear energy doesn’t mean they’ll revive the federal government’s plan to store waste at Yucca ...

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Thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will be dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years are piling up at 131 power plants and research labs across the US. Federal law requires that it ...

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 ...

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 ...