nuclear waste

Cañon City in southern Colorado is still dealing with the fallout of radioactive contamination from decades ago. A nuclear waste watchdog group wants communities that are considering partnering with the government on future waste storage plans to have the full picture of the energy cycle and its history.

As northwest Colorado loses coal jobs and dollars, a small group is raising the possibility of nuclear waste storage as a replacement. Community leaders in coal country have mixed feelings about the idea.

Spent nuclear fuel, or what many of us think of as nuclear waste, is building up at temporary sites all across the country, and the U.S. is looking to consolidate it. New research looks at the pros and cons of developing the industry in-state.

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, however, some see the prospect of storing this spent fuel as an opportunity.

People who lived near nuclear test and waste sites across the Mountain West and were sickened from their exposure to radiation are hopeful lawmakers will revive a program to help them. It comes amid a day of remembrance for so-called “downwinders".

For years during the Cold War, large swaths of land in Nevada were used for atomic weapons testing. Nuclear bombs were dropped just miles from small...

Lawmakers in our region are meeting Thursday to discuss the potential economic windfalls from nuclear waste storage. It's the first meeting of Wyoming's...

Environmental activists are calling for a united voice in protesting the Department of Energy's recent shipment of nuclear waste through our region....

It's been more than thirty years since Yucca Mountain in Nevada was picked as the nation's nuclear waste site, and the state has been fighting the...

A bill that would allow for the building of a nuclear waste storage facility in Wyoming received an initial go ahead in the State Senate, despite concerns…