Power Failure: Subcommittee Seeks Solution to Decades-Old Nuclear Waste Problem

Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security rehashed the costly problem this week, but did not define any real solutions. The United States still has no plan for permanently storing more than 94,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants, despite a 1998 deadline that required the federal Department of Energy (DOE) to have a facility available to accept the waste. House members of the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security rehashed the costly problem in a hearing this week, finding bipartisan agreement that...