A Nevada commission approved a report Monday alerting state lawmakers that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project is not dead yet and they should press on with their opposition. Otherwise the ridge ...

WASHINGTON — Analysts at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday completed a safety review that gives Yucca Mountain generally positive marks, but stops short of recommending it be granted a ...

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 — While he apparently broke no laws, the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withheld and manipulated information to make the case for shutting down the proposed radioactive waste ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Native American tribal leader said Tuesday that federal regulators failed to consider people living in the Death Valley area in a key environmental report about the likelihood of ...

“[B]y terminating work on Yucca Mountain, DOE likely would have to restart the process for any alternative repository site, since every site is unique,” the report says. “Some of the officials we ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has met nearly all of the requirements to build a nuclear waste repository in Nevada, but still doesn’t own the necessary land, regulators said. The 181-page report from ...

WASHINGTON -- The final report on whether Yucca Mountain is a suitable place to bury high-level nuclear waste will not contain an analysis of terrorist threats to the site, project chief Lake Barrett ...

During the 2008 battle for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton staged an intense fight for the Nevada delegates. Both candidates took a stand against Yucca Mountain, declaring ...

The Energy Department's drive to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain by 2010 is partly fueled by a desire to reduce its liability to power producers, a federal audit says. But work on a ...

Jack Spencer is a Senior Research Fellow for Energy and Environmental Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Senator Harry Reid’s (D–NV) re-election campaign against Sharron Angle provides a historic new ...

Progress toward opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump is still hindered by questions about the quality of scientific and engineering work, a year after allegations of fraud emerged, ...