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The country is not only sitting on the largest nuclear arsenal, but also the largest stockpile of nuclear waste. The decades-old question resurfaced again this week after the House of Representatives gave the go-ahead to the Trump administration to revive a long-stalled controversial project to build a nuclear waste dump in the Nevada desert. The repository planned in early 1980s is supposed to be deep inside the Yucca Mountain.

M V Ramana | Nuclear establishments and governments keen on promoting nuclear power have failed at this challenge. In the final analysis, the reason to doubt if DOE’s strategy will succeed is simply that they haven’t even started to work through this challenge.