McClatchy Washington Bureau

Diablo Canyon Power Plant, like many other nuclear plants in the nation, is becoming its own mini Yucca Mountain, a growing repository of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.

For years, the identified solution was to bury the waste in a centralized underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. However, the Obama administration has canceled those plans.

This means that spent fuel stockpiles at places such as Diablo Canyon won’t be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. This angers many local elected officials who feel betrayed by the federal government.

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