POLITICO NEWSROOM

Why we haven’t found a permanent place to store nuclear waste

Episode Summary

About 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is sitting in power plants across the country. POLITICO’s Kelsey Tamborrino explains why the federal government hasn’t put that waste in a permanent location and the approach the Biden administration is taking now to do that.

Episode Notes

About 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is sitting in power plants across the country. POLITICO’s Kelsey Tamborrino explains why the federal government hasn’t put that waste in a permanent location and the approach the Biden administration is taking now to do that.

 

Nirmal Mulaikal is a POLITICO audio host-producer. 

Kelsey Tamborrino is a reporter covering clean energy for POLITICO. 

Raghu Manavalan is the host-producer of the Playbook Daily Briefing and a senior editor for POLITICO audio.

Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO’s audio department.