The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear fuel for decades. Nevada officials generally have fought the project ...

There is a term well known in the political world, and that term is “NIMBY,” standing for “not in my back yard.” This term ...

Wyoming lawmakers are wrestling with whether to green light potentially numerous nuclear waste sites throughout the state.

At a townhall, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray addressed concerns about Radiant Nuclear proposed nuclear project in Bar ...

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers. For decades, the nation has been trying to send it ...

Yucca Mountain is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It was chosen in the late 1980s as a possible storage site for waste material from nuclear power plants.

The United States alone has 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste, which is increasing at a rate of 2,000 metric tons per year.6 The most dangerous of this waste is designated high-level waste (HLW), ...

The Nuclear Waste Administration Act would essentially yank responsibility from the Department of Energy (which has spent more than $10 billion on moribund Yucca Mountain, once seen as a potential ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments related to the effort to find a temporary storage location for the nation’s nuclear waste — a ruling is expected by late June.

In 2021, the commission approved temporary storage sites in Texas due to nuclear power plants running out of space, and the planned permanent underground storage facility in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

The NRC granted the Texas license to Interim Storage Partners, based in Andrews, Texas, for a facility that could take up to 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) of spent nuclear fuel rods from power ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments related to the effort to find a temporary storage location for the nation’s nuclear waste – a ruling is expected by late June.