Trump’s energy secretary pick won’t rule out restarting Yucca Mountain waste project
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, about the project during Wright’s ...
Energy Secretary nominee pressed on future of Yucca Mountain nuclear site
One of Nevada's U.S. senators pressed President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary on the future of the ...
Nevada U.S. senator blasts Trump energy pick over Yucca Mountain
On the same day that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary declined to fully shut down the idea of ...
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Barack Obama on Yucca Mountain
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 ...
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Many states have resisted nuclear waste storage plans. Northwest Colorado is quietly opening the door.
As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...
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Trump budget revives plan to store nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain
An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...
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Readers react to Betelgeuse’s buddy, the 2024 Nobels and small nuclear reactor waste
Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...
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U.S. Department of Energy advisory board to discuss environmental report
Public meeting will discuss the environmental impact of the programs conducted at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to ...