Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Yucca Mountain showing coring activities in 2006. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy) A victory by Donald ...

Plans to turn Yucca Mountain into the country’s nuclear waste bin are at a standstill, but discussions of restarting the proposal have drawn concerns — and different opinions — from Nevada’s elected ...

* Nuclear waste should not be scattered - lawmakers * Lawmakers question Energy Secy Chu about decision * Expert panel hearings on nuclear waste set for Thursday * Energy Dept says keeping all records ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...

In March 2010 the Department of Energy informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- the nation's independent nuclear regulatory body -- of its decision to withdraw the federal government's ...

May 30, 2003 — The shape of a U.S. Senate hearing was thrown into the air after one witness and possibly a second declined to testify on allegations of problems within the Yucca Mountain Project. Sens ...

The Obama administration is proposing to take $115 million Congress appropriated this year to obtain a federal license for the national nuclear waste repository near Nevada's Yucca Mountain and use it ...

A federal appeals court threw the future of proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., into doubt yesterday by demanding that the federal government devise a new plan to protect the ...

AMARGOSA VALLEY, NEVADA Standing behind the counter at Nevada Joe’s, a gas station and saloon along Highway 95 northwest of Las Vegas, Adrian Goodman explains his decision to move from Los Angeles to ...

Despite the politics surrounding Yucca Mountain and the Obama Administration’s policy to terminate the project, a federal court today held the executive branch to its chief role: executing the law.

Jan. 10, 2002 — Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has made his recommendation to President Bush that the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada should be used as a permanent storage site for the country’s ...