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  • Nuclear dump could waste the Colorado, foes say

    Activists are protesting the state of California's plans to build a low-level nuclear dump in the desert's Ward Valley.

    by James Bruggers, Mar 03, 1997

  • Los Alamos piles on more waste

    Local watchdog groups are worried that radioactive waste intended for temporary storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be there permanently, as new waste arrives with no definite future destination.

    by Oakley Brooks, Dec 18, 2000

  • Agency gets rebuked

    A National Academy of Sciences report on the "Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites" says that the Dept. of Energy still doesn't know how to manage the more than 100 federal nuclear sites in the country.

    by Oakley Brooks, Dec 18, 2000

  • Plutonium in your potatoes?

    Tests of four wells on the site of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory reveal that minute traces of plutonium have leaked into the Snake River Aquifer.

    by Andrea Barnett, May 21, 2001

  • Can Nevada bury Yucca Mountain?

    The unexpected power shift in the U.S. Senate raises environmentalists' hopes that the high-level nuclear waste dump proposed for Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which once seemed unstoppable, may not be a "done deal" after all.

    by Jon Christensen, Jul 02, 2001

  • A bitter valley waits

    Residents of Nevada's Amargosa Valley, not far from Yucca Mountain, seem to be mostly ambivalent over the prospect of the high-level nuclear waste dump opening.

    by Jon Christensen, Jul 02, 2001

  • Nuclear storage site splinters Goshutes

    A proposed high-level nuclear waste storage area on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in western Utah is coming under attack from some tribal critics as well as other opponents.

    by Tim Westby, Nov 19, 2001

  • Uber Recycling

    Garry and Diann Fulks have been recycling large metal objects for 35 years at their scrap yard in Montrose, Colo.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 09, 2008

  • Utahns could kill radioactive dump

    In Utah, an initiative that would triple the cost of disposal at Envirocare's radioactive waste dump in Tooele County and it from taking hotter wastes is being fiercely fought by the company.

    by Tim Westby, Oct 14, 2002

  • State's big nuke waste fight takes a hit

    A federal judge has struck down a series of Utah laws meant to block a planned high-level nuclear waste storage facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation.

    by Tim Westby, Oct 14, 2002
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