The Washington Post editorial board revived a dormant Obama era disaster Saturday, calling on President Trump to clean up the long delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. To their credit, the board traced the $50 billion the U.S. government owes in liabilities to nuclear power companies for the facility back to poor policies by the Obama administration and former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Simply put, nuclear plants are running out of places to store their waste. “For years, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) successfully blocked funding for its development, with the help of President Barack Obama,
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