Another $ 10 million is made available for work at the Nye County site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Nye County would receive $ 5 million from the total for repository-related activities. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., chairman of the House energy …
In response to the May 8 editorial, “Yucca lives?” The thrust of your editorial is correct. The nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain is required by federal law and is not dead. But you portray the lawsuits against the Nuclear Regulatory …
When Congress gets back to town this week, two items will be up for discussion that, as we reported last week, will heavily interest Nevada: cybersecurity and Yucca Mountain. But one thing you probably won’t hear much about is a plan to …
As I reported in this article, two states with big volumes of military and civilian nuclear wastes are suing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to try to force it to follow the terms of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which called for the …
Shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War, scientists across America began studying possible commercial uses of nuclear materials. By 1958, the first nuclear power plant was up and running outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. Today, there are 104 nuclear …
The Hill’s Bob Cusack has a piece that explores policy differences between presumptive GOP White House nominee Mitt Romney and Capitol Hill Republicans. Nuclear waste policy is among the areas where the two sides don’t see eye to eye. From the story …
WASHINGTON — South Carolina’s governor is protesting the Obama administration’s planned termination of the Yucca Mountain Project, including asking the state’s attorney general to “pursue every legal action possible” to stop the shutdown. Gov. Mark …
CARSON CITY — Despite the tough words earlier this week by Gov. Brian Sandoval, the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear dump is still alive. “It’s in suspended animation,” said Robert Halstead, executive director of the state’s Agency for Nuclear …
Gov. Brian Sandoval played his gubernatorial trump card Monday, telling the nation’s energy secretary that Nevada doesn’t support resurrecting Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste dump or hosting an interim storage site in the state, no …
Nye County, Sandoval clash over future of Yucca (March 16, 2012) Gov. Sandoval: Nye County may want a nuke dump but it doesn’t speak for Nevada (March 12, 2012) The Sun’s Yucca Mountain coverage The Nye County Commission recently sent a letter …