AdvertisementHow To Find A New Nuclear Waste Site? Woo A TownJanuary 26, 2012Christopher JoycefacebookEmailWithout a centralized national repository for nuclear waste, the radioactive material is currently being kept at various sites across the country. Above, large concrete canisters, each holding 14 55-gallon drums of waste, are loaded on a truck in 2005 in Richland, Wash., where they were later shipped to a facility in New Mexico. (Getty Images)