A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes Nuclear ...

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

Much of the world of living things seems split into two groups: the generalists and the specialists. Generalists – honeybees, weeds, humans – can exploit a variety of habitats. Specialists zero in on ...

But it doesn’t mean the Nevada site is safe — or even back on the docket. Did the authors of the license application, for instance, adequately consider the question “what can happen?” to the waste, ...

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President Trump has made a U-turn on funding the long-delayed and long-debated Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada — but it’s unclear what his decision means for moving the 3.55 million ...

The pressures of succeeding in a society set up to take advantage of the weak and disadvantaged can feel crushing. It’s hard not to feel like a cog in an unforgiving machine — work, errands, social ...

YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) - A 55-year-old woman in an electric wheelchair was struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash last week in Yucca Valley. The crash was first reported on Nov. 6 ...