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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court ruled a company can store nuclear waste at a facility near the Texas -New Mexico state line. Nuclear experts say the 6-3 ruling could free up private companies to keep nuclear ...

Despite an attempt by the Trump administration to restart the project, Yucca Mountain has remained little more than a hole in the ground for more than a decade. Licensing the Andrews County facility ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court ruled a company can store nuclear waste at a facility near the Texas -New Mexico state line. Nuclear experts say the 6-3 ruling could free up private companies to keep nuclear was… ...