She is ignoring the fact that "The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and other high level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is located on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 80 mi (130 km) northwest of the Las Vegas Valley.
The project was approved in 2002 by the United States Congress, but Federal funding for the site ended in 2011 under the Obama Administration."

Former Democratic Senator Reid of Nevada is the one who killed it.  " "Yucca Mountain is dead. It'll never happen."

"The Government Accountability Office stated that the closure was for political, not technical or safety reasons."