nuclear energy

More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at Red Butte south of the Grand Canyon to protest the mining and hauling of uranium ore. It’s the latest in a string of Indigenous-led protests calling for the closure of the Pinyon Plain mine.

The Salt River Project is considering options for how to best use the coal-fired Coronado Generating Station after the company retires the facility in the coming decade.

An area at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico was evacuated over the weekend after workers handling a shipping container discovered a small amount of radioactive liquid inside it.

Federal regulators say they and the operator of an Arizona nuclear power plant have resolved apparent violations involving safe handling and storage of…

Arizona utility regulators approved a plan for utilities to receive all their energy from carbon-free sources by 2050. The plan approved Thursday with a…

Arizona water regulators have rejected an application by an electric company to use groundwater to cool the nuclear power plant west of Phoenix because…

Native American leaders from New Mexico are opposing plans that call for storing in the desert Southwest tons of spent nuclear fuel from power plants…