an environmental group has published online a series of maps that show the proposed transit routes of radioactive waste from nuclear energy plants to a disposal site in Nevada. The interactive ...

The senator says the fight is over political science: "When they passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act we didn't have any seniority at the time, in the state of Nevada, to be able to change that.

The 21 are among 80 sites Larsen drew together in a map that shows where the country's nuclear waste is distributed while it awaits construction of a permanent repository. "No country ...

But like a supernatural creature that refuses to die, Yucca Mountain is being kept alive by a court challenge from a few states that still want to send their nuclear waste to Nevada, opponents of ...

Nevada asks: Can the safekeeping of the waste be absolute, forever? The answer, of course, is no -- nothing is that certain. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will decide whether the repository ...

Two areas on the test site (now known as the Nevada National Security Site, or NNSS) are used for the disposal of military low-level nuclear waste. Nevada had no say in the matter when those sites ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A plan to open up a nuclear waste site in Nevada will put Oklahoma on the map of routes taken by nuclear waste haulers. An underground site beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain is ...

To the editor: The editorial encouraging Congress to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada employs “out of sight, out of mind” reasoning. While pointing out the inherent ...

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Bryan, a stalwart opponent of burying nuclear waste in Nevada during his time as governor and in the Senate, told the commission that in the past, Trump has come down on both sides of Yucca Mountain.