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 ...

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

The video above first aired March 6, before the Supreme Court ruling. ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- A Supreme Court ruling has reignited a decades-long battle in West Texas over nuclear waste, ...

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

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.

Inside the north portal to a five mile tunnel in Yucca Mountain 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas during a tour for U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Friday, May 31, 2019.

By law, Yucca Mountain is still the government’s official plan to deal with the more than 85,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel that has piled up at more than 100 locations across the country.

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.

Yucca Mountain, in the desert about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was conceived as a permanent storage place for the nation’s radioactive waste, which is currently scattered across dozens of ...

Congress designated Yucca Mountain in 1987 to be the eventual home for all U.S. high-level nuclear waste, and in 2002, President George W. Bush approved a measure for the Energy Department to ...

President Trump has made a U-turn on funding the long-delayed and long-debated Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — but it’s unclear what his decision means for moving the 3.55 ...

Nevada, I hear you on Yucca Mountain and my Administration will RESPECT you! Congress and previous Administrations have long failed to find lasting solutions – my Administration is committed to ...