NIMBY

This article describes the renewed effort by the U.S. gov't to find a location for high level waste.  Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, was originally planned as the site, but due to politics has been cancelled.  It's hard to imagine any place else taking it without a similar political battle.  The only likely exception is the operating WIPP plant in New Mexico which disposes of transuranic wastes from nuclear weapons production.

NIMBY is the acronym for "not in my backyard".