The U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement this month means some radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production stored in Idaho, Washington and South Carolina could be reclassified and ...

Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation ... 2,045 shipments from the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site and 7,244 shipments from Idaho National Laboratory. Tim Southworth, TRU ...

In 1982, lawmakers authorized creation of a federal nuclear waste site, later designated as Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and encouraged interim waste storage by private energy companies at power ...

This March, Conservation Voters for Idaho launched a grass-roots campaign to advance clean energy in Idaho. We’ve relied on fossil fuels too long — they’re expensive, pollute our communities ...

400728 04: A "no trespassing" sign warns people to stay away from the proposed nuclear waste dump ... More site of Yucca Mountain. The site was project never saw fruition, leaving nuclear waste to ...

Doing so would allow the storage site to proceed. Or the court could delve into the difficult debate over how to handle nuclear waste in the United States. Since the U.S. began large-scale nuclear ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated how to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste as Texas tried to convince the justices to block a storage site near the state’s border with ...