President Trump yesterday signaled his administration will reverse course and abandon the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — a move that could pay off politically in the ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has listened to Nevadans’ concerns on Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste facility and is committed to find alternatives. “Nevada, I hear ...

WASHINGTON — Leading Democratic presidential candidates in the Nevada caucuses opposed building the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in the state where a majority of residents oppose it. And ...

A sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev., in 2018. (John Locher / Associated Press) More than 3.5 million pounds of highly ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The State of Nevada is reopening licensing proceedings for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in an effort to "end the failed project for good," Attorney General Aaron D ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he opposes the long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, reversing his policy on a project on which the ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator Jacky Rosen, both Democrats from Nevada, have reintroduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, aiming to prevent nuclear waste storage at Yucca ...

At the start of 2001, with Republicans in control of the House and Senate and President Bush in the White House, few thought that Nevada could stop plans to bury 77,000 tons of high-level radioactive ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — President Donald Trump appears to have changed his position on Thursday about a proposal to create a national nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. The president tweeted ...