Nuclear Waste Piling Up Across US: 138 Million Pounds and Counting
Photo: Topato , Flickr, CC … And nowhere to put it. What happens to all that radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants? Not much. In 1982, Congress mandated the construction of a national nuclear waste repository. It’s been nearly 30 years since then, of course, and there’s no such repository. Planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, it was scuttled by the Obama administration due to NIMBY issues — and there’s
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