Month: June 2019
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Yucca Mountain Is the Safest Spot for Nuclear Waste. We Should Pay Nevada to Use It.
An attempt to reopen the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada, where it was built to store nuclear waste, was recently shot down in Congress. The state’s refusal to become the nation’s central repository for nuclear waste means that we are forced to store it at 80 sites across 35 states — an impractical, expensive and less safe solution.…