100 miles north of Vegas, they already do store nuclear waste, it's called Yucca Mountain. It's delivered from all over the country, from the states that think nuclear reactors are great, but don't want the waste in their own backyard (sneer).
http://www.yuccamountain.org/The idea was that Yucca Mountain would be the main US storage facility. That it would allow the closure of several thousand smaller storage sites. Didn't work out that way.
As far as I can tell the only nuclear waste present is the stuff they used for proof-of-concept engineering studies. The US spent many millions testing, engineering, and building the site and it looks like it will never be used as intended.
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