Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

I don't see anything in the plan about reviving the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. This is a key storage facility that's been used as a political scapegoat for far too long. No one lives near the facility, it's set in one of the lowest seismically active areas in the US, has almost no possibility of leaching waste material into groundwater and the environment. Yet people will fight tooth-and-nail against it for what, to preserve dry cask storage in people's actual backyards, in populated areas, with undetermined contamination risks.

My conspiracy headcanon is governments don’t want spent fuel gone because they are strategic asset and not waste despite the phraseology.