Also, because Nevada elected officials have not wavered ... calling on them to abandon the Yucca project. Las Vegas Sun video: Obama and Bill Richardson respond to questions about creating a ...

Biden is a longtime opponent of building a federal nuclear repository facility at Yucca Mountain, which is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In 2002, after voting in the Senate against using ...

All of Nevada’s congressional delegation ... The Department of Energy recommended Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as a national nuclear waste repository in 2002.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing ...

Courtesy: Las Vegas News Bureau On April 22, 1952 about 200 reporters from across the country gathered on a mound of volcanic rock on the edge of Yucca Lake in Nevada. The journalists and ...