Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

President Donald Trump and his administration have continuously assured Nevadans that their interest in nuclear energy doesn’t mean they’ll revive the federal government’s plan to store waste at Yucca Mountain , northwest of Las Vegas.

But the president issuing four executive orders last month to reshape the nation’s main nuclear energy regulatory agency and quadruple nuclear energy capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050 has local Democrats wary. Trump supported the relicensing of the nuclear repository throughout much of his first term before reversing course.

By January 2026, Trump’s secretaries of energy, defense and transportation are set to brief the president on a “recommended national policy to support the management of spent nuc

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