Explore the challenges and politics surrounding the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project and its future developments. the 77,000-ton limit Congress put on the capacity of the proposed Yucca waste dump ...

A growing number of countries are planning a permanent solution to the issue of radioactive waste by burying it deep ...

Nuclear waste is one of the deadliest materials on earth, containing radioactive materials that emit ionising radiation which can cause severe damage to living tissues and DNA and increase the risk of ...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump is reversing course on his plan to construct a nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a key swing state where residents have bitterly opposed the project. While Trump’s ...

Yet it has been tried. The United States proposed building a permanent storage site in the Nevada desert at Yucca Mountain but canceled the project a decade later under pressure from Nevada ...

Funding for Yucca Mountain will be stopped if the president’s 2010 Budget gets the green light US energy secretary Steven Chu told a Washington senate budget committee hearing last Thursday. He ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House’s fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in ...

In an apparent legal victory for the states of Washington and South Carolina, a divided federal court on Tuesday directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to continue its legally obligated ...

As radioactive waste accumulates from nuclear power plants, the Yucca mountain storage facility nears completion. Not all citizens celebrate this solution, however. The production of energy from ...