US Government Seeking Volunteers to Store Nuclear Sludge
Joe Wilkins
created: Feb. 8, 2026, 2:45 p.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
New reporting by Reuters reveals the Trump administration’s latest attempt to solve the nuclear waste dilemma.
For interested states, the nuclear waste storage would come as part of a Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus, production sites planned around new reactor buildouts and uranium enrichment facilities.
It comes as Trump hopes to quadruple US nuclear power capacity by 2050, primarily by boosting small, low-footprint nuclear reactors known as small modular reactors.
As for the waste, it remains to be seen whether the administration can overcome decades of opposition to finally find the country’s nuclear waste a home.
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