Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, about the project during Wright’s ...
One of Nevada's U.S. senators pressed President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary on the future of the ...
Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...
As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...
An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...
The Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002. But each time plans resurfaced, plans stalled because of ...
Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...
Public meeting will discuss the environmental impact of the programs conducted at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to ...