I mean, it's crazy," Coretz Masto said. Transporting nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain ("60 Minutes," 20/23/03) Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti received a rare tour of the tunnel at Yucca Mountain.

Supporters hoped it would, arguing that Yucca Mountain, approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is a viable option to solve the country's long-term problem of storing its nuclear waste.

The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional delegation and the Western Shoshone, it's a question that doesn't go away.

A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted this week to revive the nuclear waste site at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, drawing fierce criticism from lawmakers in the Silver State ...