OPINION/COMMENTARY

Wasting a Good Solution Our country has a problem. And we have a solution. But politics is threatening to interfere. The problem: Tens of thousands of tons of dangerous nuclear waste are stored at more than 125 sites around the nation. The solution: Bury the waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Yucca would become a giant underground repository. It’s designed to contain nuclear waste for 10,000 years -- long enough for it to decay to safe levels. At Yucca, our waste would be stored safely underneath 1,000 feet of solid rock. Now comes the politics. “One of the biggest environmental and security challenges facing Nevadans is the threat that Yucca Mountain will be turned into the nation’s nuclear waste dump,” John Kerry warned during a recent campaign stop in the state....