During the campaign, Barack Obama took a stand against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. That boosted his appeal in Nevada, where the facility is located. Most residents -- particularly ...

Joseph Egan, a former nuclear reactor engineer who became a lawyer, died on 7 May of gastro-esophageal cancer at the age of 53. In 1994, he formed his own law firm devoted to nuclear environmental and ...

Nevada Democrats failed Wednesday night to remove language from the House fiscal 2018 spending bill that would prohibit the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in their state from being closed. EPA ...

Thousands of tons of nuclear waste that will be dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years are piling up at 131 power plants and research labs across the US. Federal law requires that it ...

WASHINGTON - A House panel said Thursday it is investigating the Obama administration's decision to halt plans to bury the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada. The investigation by the Republican-led ...

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. But the ...

LAS VEGAS — Three examiners were removed from their audit positions after they uncovered new quality control flaws in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, one of the examiners said. Their efforts ...

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 ...

Nevada Senator Harry Reid has been the major force preventing Yucca Mountain in his home state from being developed as the repository for America's many tons of nuclear waste. Now Reid says he won't ...

WASHINGTON — Federal safety analysts have found a flaw in the plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain — the government does not have the necessary water rights to operate at the Nevada site. In a ...