Feds are also holding up nuclear waste isolation in Nevada, as long as Harry Reid is their senator.
Instead, spent fuel sits in unsafe swimming pool storage at plants around the country. Unsafe as in Japanese nuclear plant unsafe. Fuel storage is as much a risk as the reactor containment.
—and thanks to many years of anti-nuke propaganda in the Nevada media, getting Yucca Mountain going again will precipitate a political battle like Nevada has never seen before-—