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Plans for a permanent underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain are stalled because of opposition from most Nevada residents and officials.
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A plan to build a national storage facility at Yucca Mountain has been mothballed due to opposition from Nevadans and officials.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will look at cutting back on inspections of the country's nuclear reactors.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved further actions related to its review of the Department of Energy’s application to build a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain.
Nevada lawmakers are being asked to commit $3.6 million per year for the next two years to fight a federal proposal to bury the nation's most radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The federal agency reviewing plans for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste dump in Nevada has set dates and places of public meetings about revisions to an environmental report.
Newly published Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff findings appear to provide wiggle room for adopting rules to open a national nuclear waste dump in the Nevada desert, if decision-makers want to go forward.
Nevada's incoming Legislature and Gov. Brian Sandoval are being urged by a state agency to keep up the 25-year fight against federal government efforts to build a national nuclear waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Federal nuclear regulators say permanent closure plans for Yucca Mountain met all the necessary objectives in safety evaluations completed before the Obama administration pulled the plug on the Nevada waste dump.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada is gearing up for a new phase in its 25-year fight to prevent the federal government from burying the nation's nuclear waste about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.State lawmakers on Wednesday allocated almost $1.4 million to kick-start legal and technical work ahead of expected Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings on the proposed Yucca Mountain repository.Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects chief Robert Halstead told the Legislature's Interim Finance Committee that ap...