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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.
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Several Nevada lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to prevent nuclear waste being stored at Yucca Mountain.
Governor Steve Sisolak, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and two other high ranking officials toured the Nevada National Security Site where low-level radioactive waste is stored.
On Saturday, Waste Management in Washoe County is holding an event for customers to drop off up to 50 pounds of household hazardous waste.
Nevada officials investigating an October explosion at a long-closed radioactive waste dump northwest of Las Vegas are moving to studying how to prevent another blast.
Roads and schools are open in two rural southern towns after remaining closed Monday while emergency officials looked for contamination near the site of weekend flooding and a fire at a radioactive waste dump.
Two schools are closed in rural Nevada because of a fire at a radioactive waste plant.