• U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources - Full Committee Hearing to Examine Storage of Nuclear Waste and the Nuclear Waste Administration Act
• U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources - Murkowski: It's Time to End the Nuclear Waste Stalemate
• Immediate Release - U.S. Senate - Cortez Masto: Its Past Time to Move On from the Same Old Playbook on Yucca Mountain - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
• KOLO - US senators look to end nuclear waste stalemate - Associated Press
• KTVN - U.S. Senate Panel Takes Up Issue of Nuclear Waste
• Las Vegas Journal - Nevada could support nuclear waste bill if state consent allowed - By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Las Vegas Sun - Proposed nuclear storage consent bill excludes Yucca Mountain - By John Sadler
• The Nevada Independent - Cortez Masto pushes to get Nevada consent over Yucca Mountain in Senate bill - By Humberto Sanchez
• ExchangeMonitor - Yucca Mountain County Opposes Key Measures of Senate Nuclear Waste Legislation - By Exchange Monitor
• KDWN - Congressional Panel Studying Nuclear Waste Storage
• KNAU Arizona Public Radio - Congress Considers Proposals to Store Radioactive Waste - By Associated Press
• Ozarks First - US Senate panel takes up what to do with nuclear waste - By: Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press

• KUNM - Senate Panel Takes Up Nuclear Waste Issue, Navajo Cancer Center Will Cut Tribal Members' Travel Time - By KUNM News

Here is the hearing post by the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (including an archived recording of the entire hearing, links to witness testimonies, etc.).

Note that the sole skeptical witness -- re: the Yucca dump, as well as consolidated interim storage (CIS) -- was Geoff Fettus of NRDC.

However, certain U.S. Senators spoke out strongly -- including Catherine Cortez Masto, who objected to Nevada being denied consent-based siting decision-making rights, vis-à-vis the Yucca dump.

U.S. Sen. Machin, the ranking Democrat, also asked a good question -- what sense does CIS make, when the high-level radioactive waste would simply have to transported again, off to somewhere else for permanent disposal.