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What To Do With Nuclear Waste

A diagram of a dry storage cask for nuclear waste. (Photo courtesy of the US Energy Information Administration)

President Barack Obama is proposing billions to build new nuclear power plants in the US. But Shawn Allee reports the President is also trying to tackle a problem facing the country's old nuclear reactors:

The State of the Union address

Info on the commission from the US DOE

A related article from USA TODAY

Producer: Shawn Allee
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Running Time: :52

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