Five states could take nuclear waste under Trump administration initiative

The Trump administration is eyeing five states that could accept nuclear waste, which has been a longtime issue with nuclear power.  The Energy Department said Tuesday that it signed memorandums of agreement with Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Idaho to explore possible nuclear waste storage in these states. 

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