There is simply no safe place to store nuclear waste.

Radioactive waste burial sites designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the 20th century: Arco, Idaho Barnwell/Savannah River, South Carolina Beatty, Nevada Hanford/Richland, Washington Los Alamos, New Mexico Morehead, Kentucky Oak Ridge, Tennessee Sheffield, Illinois West Valley, New York; Radioactive waste burial sites which the NRC had to close due to leakage: Arco, Idaho Barnwell/Savannah River, South Carolina Beatty, Nevada Hanford/Richland, Washington Los Alamos, New Mexico Morehead, Kentucky Oak Ridge, Tennessee Sheffield, Illinois West Valley, New York