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Five States Offer to Host US Nuclear Waste Under Trump Plan
Tennessee, Utah and three other states offer to host atomic waste under non-binding accords with the Energy Department, unlocking potential for $50 billion in private investment.
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(Bloomberg) – Tennessee, Utah and three other states are offering to take atomic waste in exchange for federal help spurring the long-dormant domestic nuclear energy sector.
The agreements with Tennessee, Utah, Louisiana, Idaho and Oklahoma represent significant progress in a decades-long effort to find a home for almost 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear power-plant fuel.
Under the non-binding accords, the states will host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses that would include waste sites as well as uranium enrichment, spent-fuel reprocessing and fuel fabrication. The campuses may also host advanced reactor deployment, power generation and data centers, the Energy Department said.
“This is a new way of thinking about nuclear,” Ted Garrish, the Energy Department’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy, said in an interview.
The campuses have the potential to attract up to $50 billion in private investment and generate as much as $10 billion in state and local tax revenues, the Energy Department said in a statement.