I don’t see what the issue with Yucca Mtn is. The waste has to go somewhere. Storing it properly will greatly reduce the risk of an accident elsewhere.
Wherever they try to put it the anti-nuke people will whip up hysteria among the local population.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, a federal law, requires the DOE to build and operate a national repository for used fuel. It is funded by the fees paid by nuclear generators (not direct tax dollars, although in the end, like everything, consumers pay the bill). The NWPA is a law still on the books, but Obama and his DOE are willfully ignoring it. Thus, they are violating federal law, once again circumventing the will of Congress to veto a policy they don't like. Now, I know what would happen to me or anyone here if we willfully violated a federal law. They'd come after us and lock us up and throw away the key. But these scumbags just skate away. Typical.