Dry casks sit at the site of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in southwest Michigan. Indiana gets some of its energy from the D.C. Cook nuclear plant just a few miles south of Palisades.

Nuclear power plants are used primarily to generate electricity, and while they're often thought of as a cleaner energy source, there is a drawback. These power plants produce waste. This waste is ...

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Nuclear waste has become a kind of cultural shorthand for everything people fear about atomic power, from glowing green sludge to warnings that we are burdening distant descendants with our mistakes.