Nuclear Waste Likely to Get Voluntary U.S. Home, Granholm Says

President Joe Biden’s energy chief expects to find a U.S. community that will volunteer to take the nation’s nuclear waste, at least temporarily, potentially solving a longrunning problem for the industry.

“Some communities have raised their hands to have these conversations,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Thursday while visiting the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in Pendleton, California. She declined to identify any of the places that may be interested in hosting an interim storage facility.

About 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is stranded at dozens of reactors and other sites around the U.S., including 1,600 ...