Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said she works the room at gatherings of fellow mayors to warn them of the potential transportation risks the nation might face should nuclear waste be moved to Yucc
Congresswoman and 30-year UNLV Professor Dina Titus D-NV., said today’s unsettled racial climate should prompt discussion at the university on whether to keep its Rebel mascot.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is taking steps to review the planned revival of the long-dormant nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
As advocates for turning Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository work to revive the long-dormant project, the state of Nevada has countered with a strategy of erecting regulatory, legislativ
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.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has called for a study on how nuclear waste might travel through Southern Nevada, amid concerns that a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain could become a reality.
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.
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says his agency will conduct a study to determine what led to the collapse of a tunnel at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.
In 1987, then-Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan gave up his boyhood dream job and ran for the Senate to fight storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, less than 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Members of Nevada's delegation told a congressional committee on Wednesday the state will fight efforts to revive a mothballed plan to bury the nation's most radioactive waste in the Nevada desert.
(Carson City, Nev.) -- Assembly Joint Resolution 10 outlines the legislature’s stiff opposition to renewed plans to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With Congress talking about reviving a mothballed plan to entomb the nation's most radioactive waste in the desert outside Las Vegas, top state officials and most Nevada federal representatives are resuming a 35-year fight to block it.
Nevada's congressional delegation is upset over new plans to revive the nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.
President Trump's initial budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year includes $120 million in funding for the long-stalled project, even though few in the state want it.
