DOE identifies five states to hold nuclear waste

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story  Energy eyes nuclear waste deal with five states The Trump administration is eyeing five states that could accept nuclear waste, disposal of which has been a longtime issue with nuclear power.  AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein The Energy Department said Tuesd

The Trump administration has selected five states as candidate locations to take atomic waste, in the latest attempt to solve the United States’s decadeslong deadlock over long-term storage for spent nuclear fuel.  As President Donald Trump has pushed to quadruple domestic nuclear capacity by 2050 and rapidly expand th