The Biden administration, the incoming Trump administration, nearly all of Congress, the big tech companies and even many environmental groups agree on one thing: It’s time for new nuclear power in the United States.
There’s just one pretty major obstacle nobody wants to touch: what to do about all of the spent fuel waste.
Since the poisonous 20-year fight over the idea of storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain ended in 2011 with the Obama White House calling the idea quits, members of Congress have avoided the issue.