The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot ...

Fossil fuel industry allies in New Mexico’s government claim it’s safe to reuse toxic waste from oil and gas production outside of the oilfield. They’re wrong and they’re gambling with our water and ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June ...

Regulators approved the structure of New Mexico's Clean Transportation Fuel Program on Thursday. It will be the fourth state ...

Holtec International is pulling the plug on plans to build a temporary storage site for commercial nuclear waste in southeastern New Mexico, citing state officials' fervent opposition. Why it matters: ...

Oct. 9—Holtec International has abandoned plans to build a commercial nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico, the company announced Wednesday. Holtec, in partnership with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rendering of Holtec International’s proposed nuclear waste storage site, which the company announced this week won’t happen in ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) — The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to safely depressurize four containers holding nuclear waste that have been in ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – “Who the heck thought it was a good idea to build it where they built it?” asks State Representative Gail Armstrong. We don’t know who chose a remote spot on the New Mexico prairie ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — A private energy company is abandoning a proposal to store nuclear waste at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec International described an “untenable path forward for used fuel ...