Also, because Nevada elected officials have not wavered ... calling on them to abandon the Yucca project. Las Vegas Sun video: Obama and Bill Richardson respond to questions about creating a ...

Biden is a longtime opponent of building a federal nuclear repository facility at Yucca Mountain, which is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In 2002, after voting in the Senate against using ...

Yucca Mountain is a third rail in Nevada ... Michael Green, a history professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, predicted that Brown's comments will come back to haunt him.