Jenny,I remember the fight in late 80’s over “low level radioactive waste” for storage at the Hanford Nuclear facility here in WA state.I even wrote for my university newspaper about it, at the time.They couldn’t handle their own nuclear waste issues and wanted to take on more.It’s all about money.
Ronald Reagan was campaigning for a Slade Gorton and had to back off using Hanford to store nuclear waste. I had an environmental biology professor that was consulting on the soil vitrification project/facility at the time. Almost 40 years later it still hasn’t been realized. Corruption and money.