Cautious Optimism Surrounds Nuclear Waste Storage Progress in Minnesota

摘要

Federal lawmakers voiced optimism about progress toward relocating the country's radioactive waste to a permanent repository, though the community living closest to spent nuclear fuel in Minnesota has its doubts. "Until we actually see it start moving, we won't be 100 percent optimistic," Prairie Island Tribal Council President Shelley Buck said about the more than two dozen dry storage casks holding spent nuclear fuel at Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear plant.