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DOE Initiative May Provide Long-Term US Waste Solution, But Policy Changes Needed, Says Legal Expert

By Nigel Davies
25 August 2026

Other countries, including Finland, Sweden, and Canada, making speedier progress towards final repositories

DOE Initiative May Provide Long-Term US Waste Solution, But Policy Changes Needed, Says Legal Expert
Yucca Mountain was identified as a potential radwaste repository site, but a licence was never granted and the US Congress halted its funding in 2010. Courtesy US DOE.
The creation of up to five nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses in the US intended in part to store nuclear waste could provide a solution to the country’s decades-old nuclear waste repository problem, but work remains to fix a now obsolete Nuclear Waste Policy Act, a nuclear legal expert has said.

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