A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon we’re talking real money. To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it’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 ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Consider one of the more peculiar campaign issues to surface in recent days: Yucca Mountain. Never heard of it ...

Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español. As he traditionally does around this time every year, Brian Greenspun is turning over his Where I Stand column to others. Today’s guest is Judy ...

“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to be energy ...

Lawyers were arguing before the Supreme Court this month over permitting facilities to handle temporary nuclear waste storage when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch pointed to the skunk in the room. That would ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have continuously assured Nevadans that their interest in nuclear energy doesn’t mean they’ll revive the federal government’s plan to store waste at Yucca ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to persuade the justices ...

Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright during his confirmation hearing. (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca ...