Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain ...

Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen ...

Each Cabinet-level nominee must go through a public hearing in the relevant Senate committee and then be confirmed by the ...

U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have reintroduced a bill to prevent the storage of nuclear waste at ...

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto appeared displeased with Chris Wright’s responses about Yucca Mountain during his energy ...

One of Nevada's U.S. senators pressed President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary on the future of the ...

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 ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator Jacky Rosen, both Democrats from Nevada, have reintroduced the Nuclear Waste ...

Although the United States holds the largest inventory of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, it has no ...

Nevada’s Democratic U.S. senators and representatives in Congress reintroduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act on Wednesday, gearing up for possible renewed efforts to put a nuclear ...

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...