{"id":5340,"date":"2026-07-31T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:40:45","slug":"trump-thanks-deeply-loyal-red-state-by-planning-massive-dump-of-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=5340","title":{"rendered":"Trump thanks deeply loyal red state by planning massive dump of nuclear waste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here we go again, Idaho.<\/p>\n

While most Americans have been preoccupied with rising food and fuel prices, an ongoing war in the Middle East and the various comings and goings of the Epstein Class, the Trump administration \u2013 and accomplices in a few very Trump friendly states \u2013 have been quietly concocting a plan to make three \u201cwilling\u201d states home to the vast stockpile of the nation\u2019s high-level nuclear waste.<\/p>\n

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The plan, in the works for months, was finally publicly revealed this week by the U.S. Department of Energy, innocuously described as a \u201cNuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus.\u201d The \u201ccampus\u201d designation is promising billions in pie-in-the-sky economic benefits to states \u201clucky\u201d enough to be named to the Trump administration\u2019s short list.<\/p>\n

But like all things from this administration, the breathless hype conceals an ill-conceived and reckless science-devoid blackmail scheme that seeks to entice Idaho to accept one-third of the country\u2019s now homeless nuclear waste cache for a \u201cpromise\u201d of a big payday.<\/p>\n

Yet as audacious as the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus plot is \u2013 and it is truly and nakedly risky in its ambitions \u2013 it is even more outrageous that Idaho\u2019s governor, its U.S. senators, eastern Idaho congressman and most of the state Legislature have embraced an Idaho nuclear waste disposal scheme masquerading as an economic windfall.<\/p>\n

As the Idaho Statesman\u2019s Mark Dee succulently reported this week: \u201cIdaho is on the shortlist to become the center of America\u2019s nuclear energy industry \u2014 and a warehouse for much of its radioactive waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

One has to be living in the Trump DOE\u2019s house of mirrors not to understand that creating a permanent waste storehouse is vastly more important to the administration and its political cheerleaders than any vague promise that Idaho, or Tennessee, Utah, Oklahoma or Louisiana will reap some huge financial windfall.<\/p>\n

Becoming the center of a revitalized nuclear energy industry, an industry most clearly defined not by the jobs, energy or cash it generates but rather by the highly radioactive waste it produces carries an enormous caveat for Idaho \u2013 you might get some cash, but you must take the trash.<\/p>\n

Idaho\u2019s application for this \u201cwindfall,\u201d signed by Gov. Brad Little and warmly endorsed by Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, Congressman Mike Simpson and most state legislators \u2013 sadly and astoundingly including most of the Democratic leadership \u2013 isn\u2019t bashful about just how willing Idaho leaders are to warehouse the nation\u2019s waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Congress has acted to address and update the existing legal framework,\u201d the Idaho proposal says, \u201cIdaho is poised to engage in discussions about the eventual siting of a permanent national repository. Idaho intends to collaborate closely with the federal government and neighboring states that are interested in serving as long-term repository locations, ensuring the responsible disposition of waste streams.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Idaho proposal hints that a \u201cpermanent\u201d waste repository might be sited in Utah, Idaho\u2019s cheerleaders also say more \u201ctemporary\u201d storage in Idaho sounds just fine by them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Idaho will not consider the establishment of a deep geologic repository below the INL site or above the Snake River Plain Aquifer \u2026 Idaho is willing to consider additional long-term monitored storage solutions for the DOE, possibly including deep bore hole storage, in exchange for significant financial consideration in anticipation of development of a recycling and reprocessing (R&R) capability near the INL site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps some of you are old enough to remember that Idaho has been here before.<\/p>\n

From the early 1970s to the end of the 1990s, Idaho governors of both parties resisted repeated federal efforts to turn Idaho into what former Democratic Gov. Cecil Andrus called the nation\u2019s \u201cde facto nuclear waste dump.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Andrus became governor in 1971, the state had been quietly serving for decades as a convenient \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d location for \u201ctemporary\u201d waste storage. Andrus famously closed the state\u2019s borders to additional waste in 1988 when he became frustrated by DOE\u2019s lies and incompetence in addressing waste issues, including failure to create a plan to clean up and remove waste already sitting in Idaho.<\/p>\n

Andrus\u2019s successor, Republican Phil Batt, carried the fight forward and secured a landmark agreement sharply restricting movement of new waste into Idaho and proscribing how existing waste would be treated and removed.<\/p>\n

Both Batt and Andrus shamed their critics, including many Republican politicians and deep pocketed industry concerns, into submission because they were right on both the policy and the politics. Survey after survey over decades have shown that the state\u2019s fight to avoid becoming a nuclear waste dump has enjoyed widespread public support. Batt\u2019s agreement was immensely popular in part because the feisty, no-nonsense governor effectively told DOE to clean up its old mess and stop making a bigger mess in the future.<\/p>\n

Now Idaho\u2019s nuclear waste dump application clearly envisions junking Batt\u2019s agreement, saying \u2018future modifications will be discussed when relevant and appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, Little and the state\u2019s political elite are poised to tear up Batt\u2019s agreement and decades of bipartisan resolve, and for what? A promise to welcome more than 30,000 metric tons of the most dangerous material on the planet for at least \u201ctemporary\u201d storage above the Snake River Aquifer in southeastern Idaho?<\/p>\n

To make sure the Trump administration understands how completely prepared Idaho is to become a waste disposal site, Little\u2019s proposal underscores that \u201cIdaho is actively reforming its internal codes to consolidate authority and simplify the pathway for complex nuclear and hazardous waste facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, we won\u2019t bother with any public process around this wonderful scheme. We\u2019ll short circuit any safeguards and make sure the decision-making is \u201cconsolidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

This fantastic scheme, like all things emanating from this administration, is full of bluster, wild promises, scientific and regulatory shortcuts (or abandonment) and utter disregard for basic common sense. If you think all this blue smoke is good for Idaho then you\u2019ll probably making a killing trading Trump crypto currency.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line: American needs safe, reliable nuclear energy, and the industry needs a safe, scientifically sound basis for dealing with the vast waste stockpile that exists and that will only grow in the future.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Trump administration has produced a jerry rigged, phantom economic development concept that is really just a plea to states like Idaho to take some garbage \u201ctemporarily,\u201d while we kick the waste can down the road to places like Butte County, Idaho.<\/p>\n

If this were a nuclear waste version of \u201cThe Apprentice,\u201d the Idaho politicians endorsing this nonsense would be fired since they clearly have no idea what they are doing.<\/p>\n

Read more Internal revolt erupts as Trump appointee enrages Wall Street: \u2018Not confident\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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