Firstly, several states have restrictive laws around the handling of nuclear waste that makes it harder to develop nuclear energy. For example, in 1980, Oregon banned the construction of nuclear ...

The lawsuit underscored a touchy subject — plans to store nuclear waste deep under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the only permanent storage site in the United States allowed by federal law ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s map of sites storing spent nuclear waste in the United States. Step one might be this: NWMO’s creation was mandated by the government, but it’s ...