In 1982, Congress enacted a federal law that required the government to establish a permanent facility to house spent fuel, later determined to be Yucca Mountain in Nevada. But the site has yet to ...

The storage of nuclear waste has been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Now the Supreme Court will ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with New Mexico.

A discussion that could drastically change Northwest Colorado’s economic and environmental future accelerated on Tuesday ...

Nuclear waste is one of the deadliest materials on earth, containing radioactive materials that emit ionising radiation which can cause severe damage to living tissues and DNA and increase the ...

Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday over whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license certain nuclear waste storage facilities amid objections brought by the state ...

In 1982, lawmakers authorized creation of a federal nuclear waste site, later designated as Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and encouraged interim waste storage by private energy companies at power ...

The US Department of Energy identified several possible sites for the waste, and eventually culled those sites down to three — one in Texas, one in Washington state, and Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Lawmakers designated Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as the only authorized site for the Department of Energy to permanently store spent nuclear fuel despite opposition from the state. The Obama ...

WASHINGTON — The shadow of the long-stalled proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, loomed over Supreme Court proceedings Wednesday as the justices weighed a dispute over the ...