White House Drafts Plan to Scrap Yucca Mountain for State-Led Nuclear Waste Campuses
A leaked document reveals the Trump administration is seeking legislative changes to abandon Yucca Mountain as the sole nuclear waste repository. The plan proposes allowing the Department of Energy to partner with willing states to build integrated 'life-cycle innovation campuses' for waste storage, fuel recycling, and advanced reactor development. This move aims to resolve a decades-long impasse over the accumulation of over 95,000 metric tons of nuclear waste, coinciding with the administration's goal to quadruple nuclear power production within 25 years.