The United States currently has nearly 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel within its borders, with the nuclear industry generating between 2,000 and 2,300 metric tons of additional used fuel every year. If the used fuel assemblies were to be stacked up end-to-end and side-to-side, the stack would cover a football field and would be 21-feet
America’s Brewing Nuclear Waste Crisis
Large collections of nuclear waste are scattered across the country without a disposal plan.