In a 6-3 decision, the court said Texas and oil industry interests could not fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's approval of the site.

YUCCA MOUNTAIN (KTNV) — For Nevada, it's the question that doesn't go away. The fight to stop Yucca Mountain from becoming a nuclear waste repository has gone on for more than three decades now.

Efforts to restart the Yucca Mountain project in 2018, which cleared the House but failed in the Senate, demonstrate that “it is possible to build bipartisan support” for a nuclear waste repository, ...

Yucca Mountain was officially designated as the nation’s nuclear waste “repository” during the administration of George W. Bush, in 2002.

In the world of nuclear energy, the Idaho National Laboratory this week accomplished a first-of-its-kind test. The experiment proved successful and could ultimately decrease the amount of waste ...

The decision is the latest chapter in the decadeslong battle over what to do with the waste generated by the nation's nuclear power plants.

As some communities in far northwest Colorado discuss hosting a temporary nuclear waste storage facility, western leaders are ...

The state had filed suit to reverse the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision to license the facility in Andrews County.

The Lone Star State doesn't have the right to block a private facility built atop an aquifer that would store half the nation ...

The Supreme Court reinstated plans to store nuclear waste temporarily in rural Texas and New Mexico, reversing a lower court's decision. This move supports the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licenses ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution. The justices, ...

The Supreme Court has ruled to allow plans to proceed for a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in West Texas.