I am glad to see the Trump administration take a step toward acknowledging what Nevadans have known for years: Yucca Mountain ...

Five states have been identified by the Department of Energy (DOE) as possible sites to store nuclear waste, but Nevada's ...

The Department of Energy announcement was welcomed by Nevada elected officials who oppose using Yucca Mountain as a nuclear ...

Nevada's U.S. Senators want closer scrutiny of hazardous materials shipping after a damaged nuclear waste container was found on a truck bound for the Nevada Test Site.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – President Trump announced on social media he is directing the Pentagon to restart nuclear weapons tests. It’s been more than three decades since the U.S. carried out a nuclear test.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — After a decade in limbo, Nevada is pressing U.S. nuclear regulators to finally kill a mothballed proposal to entomb the nation’s most radioactive waste beneath a windswept volcanic ...

Thomas Hunt, M.D., associate professor of family and community with the University of Nevada School of Medicine and Nevada program director for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program ...

The resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States will undermine national security, arms control advocates told Newsweek. Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association ...

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