With thousands of tons of radioactive waste piling up across the U.S., Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the final resting ...

Obama, whose home state of Illinois has 11 nuclear power facilities, said it might seem to be in the best interests of his state to ship out the nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. However ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the ...

Each Cabinet-level nominee must go through a public hearing in the relevant Senate committee and then be confirmed by the ...

Nuclear energy, and, particularly for me, nuclear ship propulsion, continues to be a tantalizing solution to CO2 reduction.We ...

(Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee screengrab) “Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen Catherine Cortez Masto ...

“Can Nevadans count on you to acknowledge that the failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Donald Trump’s nominee to ...

Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is unworkable,” during his ...

People who lived near nuclear test and waste sites across the Mountain West and were sickened from their exposure to ...

Christian Juttner, the actor who starred in Return From Witch Mountain as a child, has died. He was 60. Juttner died of ...