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Tennessee could get $50B for storing nuclear waste. The state won’t say where it plans to put it
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Regional News
Tennessee is one of five Republican-led states under federal consideration to store the nation’s nuclear waste.
But some of the specific communities that could potentially host a nuclear waste site were redacted from the public-facing version of Tennessee’s proposal.
The state has identified Oak Ridge as the primary site for a nuclear campus, which would not only store waste but also be a site for uranium enrichment, reactor deployment, data centers and other ways of generating power.
However, the state has not specified other places in Tennessee that would only store nuclear waste, despite indicating that it has places in mind.
In addition to significant investment in the state, lawmakers have said the nuclear campus will create thousands of jobs.