Why Trump is now looking beyond Yucca Mountain for storing nuclear waste

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 abl

U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto want to ensure that Yucca Mountain, located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, never serves as a nuclear waste dump site.