LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's U.S. senators and Energy Secretary Rick Perry toured a federal facility north of Las Vegas where the government is handling weapons-grade plutonium shipped from South Carolina.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that President Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year will include $116 million for the Department of Energy to restart the licensing process for Yucca Mountain to become a nuclear waste repository.
A federal advisory panel met Tuesday in a preliminary step to determine if a nuclear waste repository should be built at Yucca Mountain, which is 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — A House panel today approved a bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, while also moving forward with a separate plan for a temporary storage site in New Mexico or Texas.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada wants a federal appeals court to dismiss a bid by the state of Texas to kick-start government funding and licensing for a long-fought plan to entomb the nation's most radioactive waste in the desert outside Las Vegas.
The Government Accountability Office released a report this week that estimates the cost and the process to resume licensing for the nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain.
