Trump Administration Wants To Store 100,000 tons of radioactive waste

By Douglas McIntyre  •  February 7, 2026

The Trump Administration is trying to find a place in the US to store 100,000 tons of radioactive waste under the “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses in the US” plan. So far, no state has stepped forward to do this. Douglas A. McIntyre, Editor-In-Chief of Climatecrisis247 explains,