Washington state has filed suit to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning a planned waste repository in the Nevada desert, the latest clash in a long-standing dispute over where the nation's dangerous radioactive waste should be stored.
Waste and spent nuclear fuel from south-central Washington's Tri-Cities, site of the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear reservation and the only commercial nuclear plant in the northwestern United States, had long been intended to go to Yucca Mountain, the Nevada site 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Las Vegas.
The U.S. Department of Energy has said the proposed desert mountain repository is no longer …
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