Nuclear Regulators Search For Temporary Storage Facility In New Mexico
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Nearly 100,000 tons of nuclear waste are piling up around the country. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The federal government decided decades ago that it made sense to consolidate the waste at one permanent location, but no place seems to want it.