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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Obama administration will seek to eliminate funding for a review needed to open a nuclear waste respository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. More>>
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says eight petitioners and 299 challenges will be heard during upcoming hearings on the Energy Department's application to open and operate a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada. More>>
A panel of Nuclear Regulatory Commission judges is hearing oral arguments in Las Vegas on the license application to move forward with storing radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain. More>>
Some big news today on the Yucca Mountain front. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the proposed site in Nevada is no longer an option for storing highly radioactive nuclear waste. More>>
Congresswoman Shelley Berkley is rejecting new calls to expand the size of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. More>>
Some are calling the $3 billion proposed rail line to bring nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain a diaster in the making. Inside, find information on the public hearing. More>>
The Energy Department will tell Congress in the coming weeks it should begin looking for a second permanent site to bury nuclear waste, or approve a large expansion of the proposed waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. More>>
Federal nuclear regulators have agreed to consider the government's application for a license to build a radioactive waste dump in Nevada. More>>
The Energy Department has calculated a new total cost to open and operate the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, to more than $90 billion. It's the first official estimate since 2001, when the figure stood at $58 billion. More>>
Eyewitness News has learned that the license application to open the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain is complete. The massive document will be submitted early next week. Reporter Edward Lawrence has details. Inside find a link to a petition opposing the waste dump. More>>
The federal Energy Department has picked two contractors to design and build canisters for the transport and permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel at a planned national repository in Nevada. More>>
Nevada's congressional delegation wants more to time to prepare challenges to the application for the nation's nuclear waste dump being built at Yucca Mountain -- about 90 miles from Las Vegas. More>>
The head of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project says that despite budget cuts, the Energy Department will meet a self-imposed June deadline for submitting a required license application to build the repository. More>>
The top official overseeing the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump says he cannot say when the project will open any more. More>>
The head of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump says the $494.7 million President Bush requested for the project in 2009 is necessary for plans to stay on track. More>>
President Bush is seeking $495 million for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in 2009.It's a figure that Congress is unlikely to give him with Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, who opposes the dump, running the Senate as majority leader. More>>
Nevada's congressional delegation is asking the Labor Department to help find new jobs for the workers being laid off from the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump project due to budget cuts. More>>
The head of the Yucca Mountain nuclear dump project says 2008 budget cuts will cause several hundred layoffs and put plans to finish a required license application by June 30 in "serious jeopardy." More>>
The public comment period for Yucca Mountain will end Thursday at midnight. The Department of Energy is submitting a license application and public comment is part of that process. More>>
The Energy Department is cutting operations and laying off contract workers at the Nevada desert site where it plans to build a national nuclear waste repository. More>>
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel has rejected Nevada's challenge to an Energy Department database required for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump to go forward. More>>
Nevada officials say the federal government is not playing fair when it comes to nuclear waste storage. The Department of Energy wants to ship the nation's high-level waste to Yucca Mountain. However, the state says it's not safe. Reporter Edward Lawrence has the details. More>>
A public hearing in Las Vegas on the Yucca Mountain project drew more than 200 people Monday evening. The hearing is one is a series on the proposal to store the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Inside, find details on how to submit your opinion online, e-mail, or fax. More>>
A heated debate and now new hope in the fight against Yucca Mountain -- this time from the United States Senate. The environmental committee held a contentious hearing aimed squarely at shutting down the proposed nuclear dump. Jonathan Humbert, the only local TV reporter was at that hearing in Washington and has the details. More>>
A new effort is underway by Clark County to enable Southern Nevadans to have their say on the Yucca Mountain Project. Reporter Edward Lawrence takes a look at how the county plans to get people to voice their opinions. Click here to print the "Speak Up on Yucca Mountain" flyer. More>>
In a shiny new building in Las Vegas, employees at the Nuclear Regulatory Agency are deciding if a nuclear waste dump in Nevada gets a license to open waits for the application. Reporter Edward Lawrence looks in depth at why the federal agency says its new building is not wasted tax dollars. More>>
The state of Nevada filed a new legal motion in federal court to halt the license application to open Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump. More>>
The head of the Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects says the Department of Energy wants to ram through the license for the nuclear waste repository before the current president leaves office. Eyewitness News has uncovered new information about transportation and safety, which could impact the entire Las Vegas Valley. More>>
The proposed nuclear-waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada will need up to three times its current funding or the program's 2017 opening date will have to be delayed. More>>
Drilling operations at the Yucca Mountain project, north of Las Vegas, have unearthed a big surprise that could create concern about the project. Reporter Tedd Florendo takes an indepth look at this story. Inside, find a link for recent Nevada quake activity. More>>
Contractors on the Yucca Mountain Project are preparing to lay off 60 to 80 workers in anticipation of budget cuts from Congress. Notices were expected to be distributed in the next few days to employees of Bechtel SAIC. More>>
Nevada state attorneys are asking a judge order the federal government to stop using the state's water for drilling at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. The attorney general's office filed two motions Monday. More>>
This week brought another round in the war of water use at the Yucca Mountain Project, but this time, it might end with sanctions or fines against the Department of Energy. Inside, find a link to full coverage of Yucca Mountain. More>>
The Department of Energy will no longer be allowed to use Nevada's water for bore hole drilling at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. More>>
Some of Nevada's most powerful leaders gathered in Las Vegas Thursday for a closed door strategy session. Their goal -- stopping the Yucca Mountain Project. Reporter Edward Lawrence has the details. More>>
Battle lines are being drawn in a dispute over whether the Energy Department is withholding important information about Yucca Mountain. More>>
The newest fight over the Yucca Mountain waste repository concerns water. More>>
Those against the plan to store the nation's nuclear waste in Southern Nevada are strategizing ways to thwart the federal project as the Yucca Mountain Project takes center stage again. More>>
The Yucca Mountain project is far from dead. One of the trickiest parts about building a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain is getting the waste to the facility. The idea of using the Caliente corridor is being tossed around again. Reporter Melissa Duran has the story. More>>
More than 2 million Yucca Mountain related documents are being made available to the public. More>>
A top Yucca Mountain official says the Energy Department is refocusing plans for a cross-Nevada railroad to a national nuclear waste repository. More>>
The Walker River Paiute Tribe has dealt a blow to a federal proposal to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain along a western Nevada rail corridor. More>>
Three-dozen Yucca Mountain Project workers lost their jobs last week, and there may be more layoffs ahead. More>>
The Energy Department's Yucca Mountain project chief says the proposed the Mina Corridor route for shipping nuclear waste to the dump appears to be faster and cheaper to build than the Caliente Corridor. More>>
The Department of Energy unveiled legislation today to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid immediately vowed to block the bill. More>>
Opponents of the proposed Yucca Mountain Project believe the project is dead. The state is still fighting it, but as Legislative Reporter Jonathan Humbert found out, Nevada may be running out of options. More>>
Nevada officials have released a report saying taxpayers would save billions of dollars if the government never opens the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. More>>
It's a twenty-year battle that may finally be coming to an end -- new word Tuesday that the state's efforts to stop conscruction of Yucca Mountain have worked. More>>
The leading nuclear industry association says it will stop trying to push bills on Yucca Mountain through Congress, with Reid as the majority leader. Read on for more Eyewitness News stories on the Yucca Mountain debate. More>>
The fight to preserve Yucca Mountain is gaining some new momentum at a meeting today called by Senator Harry Reid. More>>
The Energy Department is making a new push to fix how design mistakes are identified and corrected at a proposed national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a top project official said. Paul Golan, principal More>>
The Nevada Test Site is once again being considered to house nuclear materials from across the country. This time it is weapons-grade plutonium. Send your comments to the National Nuclear Security Administration. Read on for details. More>>
What will Southern Nevada be like in 10,000? Will the English language exist? These are questions the Department of Energy is considering as it works on a long-term warning plan for Yucca Mountain. The I-Team's Mark Sayre talked with the founder of the non-profit Desert Space Foundation. More>>
The federal Energy Department is adding another public meeting about revised plans for a radioactive waste dump in Nevada. Read on for links to comment and see maps showing a proposed rail route. More>>
A panel of federal judges in Washington have thrown out a Nevada lawsuit against the Yucca Mountain project -- citing technical grounds. More>>
A nuclear industry-lobbying group's proposal would also provide millions of dollars to Nevada if it drops opposition to the nuclear waste dump project. More>>
There are so many legal challenges to the Yucca Mountain project that the underground storage of nuclear waste won't happen until at least 2010. More>>
The U.S. Attorney's Office will not prosecute scientists who falsified reports concerning safely storing nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain. More>>
The planned Yucca Mountain repository could hold up to nine times more nuclear waste if it were expanded and redesigned according to an industry report previewed Wednesday. More>>
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman toured the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository Thursday with some of the top scientists at the site. For Eyewitness News to get access, we had to have a background check and get cleared through security on the Nevada Test Site. More>>
Nevada's congressional delegation is digging in and promising to kill the latest Yucca Mountain bill the DOE, with the support of President Bush, sent to Congress on Wednesday. Read on for responses from Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign. More>>
A key senator said Thursday that he'll likely introduce his own bill if the Bush administration doesn't soon unveil much-anticipated legislation to smooth development of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada. More>>
Nevada filed a lawsuit accusing the federal Energy Department of withholding documents that state officials say will show the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository can't be built safely. More>>
It will be at least five years before construction can begin at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said this week. More>>
The future of the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage project is being discussed by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. More>>
The Department of Energy released a report it says confirms the technical work at Yucca Mountain. Read the DOE report. More>>
No specifics of the DOE's plan have been made public only that waste from other countries could be brought there for reprocessing. Read on for two perspectives. More>>
A Nevada group working against the Yucca Mountain project says the DOE's plan could also bring waste from other countries to Southern Nevada. More>>
Sandia National Laboratories has been chosen as the lead federal lab to coordinate science work on the $58 billion Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, the U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday. More>>
The federal offices handling the Yucca Mountain project are reorganizing so officials say they can streamline efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada. More>>
Nevada senators Ensign and Reid have teamed up to propose legislation to keep nuclear waste from being brought to Southern Nevada. If the bill is approved, it would remove the need for the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. More>>
The DOE's inspector general reports more emails have been uncovered, which may throw uncertainty on the validity of the science being used to justify the proposed nuclear waste dump. More>>
Lawmakers agreed Monday to cut 2006 spending for Yucca Mountain well below past-year levels and President Bush's budget request, reflecting the faltering prospects for locating the nation's nuclear waste dump in the Nevada desert. More>>
The project's supporters and detractors are weighing in on the news of the DOE's new plans to radically change how spent nuclear fuel will be handled before it reaches Yucca Mountain. More>>
Scientists and environmentalists are criticizing proposed radiation limits at the Yucca Mountain dump. They believe the rules aren't strict enough to protect the public. More>>
The judicial panel on Sept. 22 rejected Energy Department arguments that the draft license application was legally shielded from disclosure. More>>
The Energy Department is telling the U-S Geological Survey to expect deep cuts in 2006 funding for work on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste. More>>
The DOE says it's turned over more than 700 pages of additional documents subpoenaed by Nevada Congressman Jon Porter and a congressional panel investigating the Yucca Mountain project. More>>
Nevada filed a new lawsuit Thursday against the Yucca Mountain project. The state alleges in a petition filed in federal court in Washington that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has already decided to grant the DOE a license to open the national nuclear waste dump. More>>
Nevada's attorney general is asking counterparts in 10 states to join the fight against a proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. More>>
The Environmental Protection Agency has anounced its plans to hold public information sessions about the future of Yucca Mountain. In October, the EPA will hold hearings in Nevada. Read on for more information. More>>
The $3.8 billion in estimated public safety expenses for the Yucca Mountain project should be paid by the federal government, but Clark County planners believe taxpayers will be the ones to shell out the money. More>>
The executive director of the state's agency for nuclear projects says the federal government is telling Nevadans to quote, "Drop dead." More>>
The EPA, trying to overcome a court ruling that threatens a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada, proposed new radiation exposure limits. Read on for a link to the EPA's news release. More>>
About one of every 10 dollars in federal funds sent to Nevada to oversee plans for a national nuclear waste repository was misspent, according to an Energy Department inspector general office report released Thursday. More>>
Utilities with nuclear power reactors have been waiting for years for a place to send their radioactive waste. Now, the state of Nevada's telling a court that plans to open the proposed repository by 2012 or later are -- quote -- "sheer fantasy." More>>
A scientist subpoenaed to testify before a Congressional panel about document falsification on the Yucca Mountain project is insisting he never altered paperwork. More>>
A Congressional committee plans to subpoena a scientist who worked on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project. More>>
The DOE says it hasn't found that Yucca Mountain water flow studies were tainted by scientists who discussed falsifying quality control data. More>>
The House started debate Tuesday on a $29.7 billion funding bill for the DOE. The energy and water projects bill would provide $661 million to continue development of the nuclear waste storage site at Yucca Mountain. More>>
A nuclear industry groups and others that support the repository announced Monday they have formed a new task force to promote the project. More>>
A new set of e-mails written by Yucca Mountain employees shows the Energy Department knew the project "flunked" because the volcanic rock formation couldn't live up to its scientific billing, an attorney for Nevada said. More>>
Follow the development of the Yucca Mountain debate as presented through the archived, chronologically arranged CBS and KLASTV coverage. More>>
A federal judge has urged the U.S. government and the state of Nevada to compromise on the use of water for drilling bore holes at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. More>>
Yucca Mountain: Quality Assurance at DOE's Planned Nuclear Waste Repository Needs Increased Management Attention GAO-06-313, March 17, 2006. More>>
Pakistan's leader continued to press for India to enter talks over the disputed Kashmir province and avoid war, while India dismissed fears that either country would use nuclear weapons in a conflict. Both sides are at an Asian security summit. Get a clearer understanding of the nuclear threat the world faces in this interactive feature. More>>
As the debate rages over using the Yucca Mountain as a burial ground for thousands of tons of radioactive material, a better site for unwanted nuclear waste holds its mute vigil in the skies above the Nevada desert: the Moon. More>>
The search for permanent solutions heats up as tons of highly radioactive sludge, spent fuel, and contaminated soil pile up around the nation. More>>
