(COLUMBUS, OHIO) Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states , in a range of different structures and containers.
For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all to one secure location.
A 1987 federal law named Yucca Mountain, in Nevada , as a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste – but political and legal challenges led to construction delays. Work on the site had barely started before Congress ended the project’s funding altogether in 2011…