WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Opponents of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository said they're hopeful President-elect Barack Obama will put an end to the project.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The contractor for the proposed U.S. nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has fenced off the tunnel and laid off most of the staff.
WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) -- The top Republican on the U.S. Senate's energy committee and nine colleagues reintroduced a bill to store nuclear waste, a plan likely doomed for now.
SCHURZ, Nev., April 23 (UPI) -- The long-delayed nuclear-waste repository in Nevada has one less possible transportation route after a tribe withdrew permission to use its land.
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- Nevada's two U.S. senators have introduced legislation keeping nuclear waste where it is produced, a bill that could stop the Yucca Mountain Project.
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Energy Department will resubmit legislation to Congress that failed last year, aimed at jump-starting a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told his state legislature a federal plan to store nuclear waste near Las Vegas will not move forward.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Shifting power on Capitol Hill is casting doubt on whether nuclear waste will be transferred on schedule from Washington State to Nevada.
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Nevada's two senators have urged a government investigation into quality assurance at the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Senators Harry Reid, a Democrat, and John Ensign, a Republican, said Tuesday they were concerned about reports that
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