Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain ...

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 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the ...

“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to ...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, about the project during Wright’s ...

Each Cabinet-level nominee must go through a public hearing in the relevant Senate committee and then be confirmed by the ...

Nuclear energy, and, particularly for me, nuclear ship propulsion, continues to be a tantalizing solution to CO2 reduction.We ...

One of Nevada's U.S. senators pressed President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary on the future of the ...

People who lived near nuclear test and waste sites across the Mountain West and were sickened from their exposure to ...

A conservative policy roadmap — and past actions from the new president's first term — could offer clues as to what he might ...