We all know the top secret area 51 base in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas but what is area 6? Area 6 is on the Yucca flat ...

All Democratic candidates oppose Yucca Mountain, but what’s your solution to solving the waste issue — and what’s your stance on nuclear power? Hillary Clinton I’ve been against Yucca ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

"Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the permanent solution," said Justice Neil Gorsuch during the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

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 ...