Welch backs controversial nuclear waste bill

Rep. Peter Welch speaks at a news conference Friday, March 23, in Burlington.
Congress is taking another shot at answering a decades-old question: What should be done with nuclear waste that’s stranded at sites like Vermont Yankee?
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., was among 340 House members who voted last month for H.R.3053, which advances both short-term and permanent storage options for spent nuclear fuel.
The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, and the movement and storage of ra