President Donald Trump’s efforts to ramp up nuclear energy capacity have raised the prospect of an increase in nuclear waste and drawn attention both to the failure of Yucca Mountain as a repository and to new alternative solutions.
For years, nuclear advocates were hopeful that the nuclear energy industry would be able to store atomic waste in storage tunnels roughly 1,000 feet underground at Yucca Mountain, located in the vast, barren deserts of Nevada.
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