LAS VEGAS — President Bush quietly signed a bill Tuesday in Washington formally adopting Yucca Mountain as the nation’s repository for used nuclear reactor fuel, pushing the 20-year debate on its ...

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Friday approved Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the site for long-term disposal of thousands of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste, ...

WASHINGTON, DC, February 18, 2002 — President George W. Bush has backed up Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham’s choice of Yucca Mountain for use as the nation’s long-term nuclear waste storage site.

2002-05-09 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- The House on Wednesday backed President Bush's decision to create a national nuclear waste burial ground at Yucca Mountain, a major victory for the nuclear power ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Bush formally approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's high-level nuclear waste dump on Tuesday, ending a 20-year political fight and shifting the battle to the ...

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LAS VEGAS — President Bush on Thursday defended his decision to use Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's high-level nuclear waste dump, an unpopular move in a swing state that he won four years ago ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After two decades of study and fervent protests from Nevada, President Bush signed a bill Tuesday making Yucca Mountain the nation's central repository for nuclear waste. "The ...