Five states selected as candidates for nuclear waste storage
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.
TL;DR
- Five states have been selected as candidate locations for nuclear waste storage.
- This is an attempt to solve a decades-long deadlock over long-term storage for spent nuclear fuel in the U.S.
- President Trump aims to quadruple domestic nuclear capacity by 2050, expanding advanced reactors to meet AI energy demand.
- Over 95,000 metric tons of nuclear waste from commercial reactors are currently stored in the U.S.
- This amount is estimated to nearly double in the coming years.