Nevada, National and International News

New Documentary 'Downwind' Urges Awareness About Nevada Nuclear Testing

At the same time, anti-nuclear activists are sounding the alarm about proposed plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In a panel discussion after the film, Zabarte raised concerns about potential nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.

Maybe I was wrong about Holtec

Conca, a presenter for the Academy for Learning in Retirement in October and recent guest on the community radio show I cohost each Wednesday morning, sees things differently. More to the point, he believes WIPP is far better suited than Yucca Mountain to handle our nation’s nuclear waste, and that the proposed Holtec nuclear waste facility near Carlsbad makes sense for collection and temporary storage.

Dismantling the San Onofre nuclear power plant is more than 60% completed

Yucca Mountain in Nevada had been slated to take the waste but the Obama administration cut off funding for the site in 2010, following years of protests from lawmakers in the Silver State who had long opposed the project.

The Dann Sisters Blazed an Anti-Nuclear Trail

The Dann sisters campaigned to assert the rights of their Indigenous Western Shoshone people, committing themselves to a political and legal battle to retain their ancestral lands, harmed by nuclear tests carried out by the US government, then threatened with the deep geological radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain (for the time being defeated).

Environmental groups cut programs as funding shifts to climate change

The Natural Resources Defense Council is shutting down its nuclear mission and has laid off its top lawyer in the field, Geoffrey Fettus, who led decades of litigation against the Energy Department to force radioactive waste cleanup and halt the creation of a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Environmental Groups Cut Programs as Funding Shifts to Climate Change

The Natural Resources Defense Council is shutting down its nuclear mission and has laid off its top lawyer in the field, Geoffrey Fettus, who led decades of litigation against the Energy Department to force radioactive waste cleanup and halt the creation of a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Court of Appeals ruling in Texas limits nuclear waste options

The federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act that became effective in January 1983 “supports the use of deep geologic repositories for the safe storage and/or disposal of radioactive waste,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The act proposed a high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain in south-central Nevada in 1987, but it has never opened.