Yucca Mountain Project Getting Scrapped

Despite the fact that the government has already spent $13.5 billion on the project, the Obama administration has decided to scrap plans to use the proposed nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Pro-nuclear energy groups are understandably angry about this reversal, especially considering that no other central facility exists to handle the waste generated by America's nuclear power reactors (the waste is currently stored on site at the power plants).