nuclear waste storage

The federal government has awarded a $3 billion contract to a management group led by Bechtel National Inc. to oversee the only underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S.

Independent federal investigators say there are significant issues related to fire training at the U.S. government’s nuclear waste repository in New Mexico.

A coalition of environmentalists and nuclear watchdogs has delivered more than 1,100 petition signatures to New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham asking that her administration take all steps necessary to stop any expansion of the federal government’s nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico.

President Donald Trump appears to have reversed his position on a proposal to create a national nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada after his…