President Obama's decision to halt construction on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants in a generation and might saddle the government with $13 billion in legal liabilities, Congress was told Tuesday.

Speaking via video to the National Academy of Sciences advanced battery conference taking place in Livonia today, Michigan Gov.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Tuesday it has no intention of building a long-planned underground repository in Yucca Mountain, Nev., to permanently store radioactive waste from Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and other facilities nationwide.

Solar company Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet, shown at the company headquarters in Fremont in 2008, announced on July 27, 2010 that he's leaving the company.

Purdue nuclear engineering doctoral student Chase Taylor, at left, and Jean Paul Allain, an assistant professor of nuclear engineering, are using this facility in work aimed at developing coatings capable of withstanding the grueling conditions inside nuclear fusion reactors.

Renewable energy developers broke ground Tuesday for a major expansion of wind-power generation in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles.