The congressional tour Thursday comes with momentum building toward restarting the Yucca Mountain project, weeks after U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, a steadfast opponent of burying nuclear waste in Nevada ...

The Trump administration favors storing the nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, and the president’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year includes $120 million to revive the stalled project.

Yucca Mountain has been synonymous in the United States with nuclear waste disposal since 1987, but strong political pressure stopped the process that would have made it real. However, Senate ...

The bumpy road to Yucca Mountain began with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, a 1982 law that called for the establishment of two nuclear waste dumps, one in the eastern U.S., one in the West.

The Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, now in its 30th year opposing Yucca Mountain, has produced maps that show the route waste would travel on trains to the site.

FILE - In this July 14, 2018, file photo, people leave the south portal of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev. President Donald Trump appears to have reversed position to now ...

As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are ...

With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting place for America’s nuclear byproducts. But the project has faced legal ...

The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional delegation and the Western Shoshone, it's a question that doesn't go away.

A recent series of executive orders reveal the Trump administration is interested in building out the country’s nuclear waste ...

Yucca Mountain has been synonymous in the United States with nuclear waste disposal since 1987, but strong political pressure stopped the process that would have made it real. However, Senate ...