What ought to be done here is that all federal property in Nevada should be carved off from Nevada (the state). Just make it a territory and hire some federal officer to preside over the territory. It’s very unlikely that any of the federal property will ever be released to the state or to private ownership. Once you accomplish this...I think the state would shrink down to around 15-percent of the mass of Nevada today.
High grade waste, and there's plenty of that, from fission cores are stored on site and elsewhere. This stuff could be reprocessed for additional fissile material, but due to treaties and economics, it just sits.
There are private ventures underway to turn this high yield waste into thermal batteries/reactors to generate power. If these come to fruition, one report states there's 700 years or so worth of material waiting to be used.
Soooo stupid. What is the expected safe lifetime of the Yucca Flats storage facility as presently designed? It is 1,000 plus years. So the worries about the facility are factually vastly overblown. That means the idiot sheeple are led by bigger idiots in both parties that can’t explain why the sheeple’s fears are without merit. So, unable to speak the truth to the sheeple, the politicians run-scared from them, less they lose their government jobs.