Anyone that received power from a utility with a nuclear power plant paid money that went to the DOE to construct that site. The federal government collected the money but never took the spent fuel rods resulting in them be stored on site all over the country. That needs to be rectified.
I remember that. The Government owes a lotta money. Good luck collecting that.
I’m not a big proponent of Yucca Mt. because the plan is to vitrify the spent fuel. This is a short sighted policy based on a Jimmy Carter executive order banning the reprocessing of spent fuel. Other than that Yucca Mt. seems to be a good repository. I just hope the operators are more on the ball than the operators of the NM WIPP facility. Morons like that should be wrangling turds at a sewer plant, not operating a nuke waste facility.