Fury boils over as GOP governor offers Civil War site as a nuclear waste dump for Trump

West Virginia residents are up in arms after learning that Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s administration offered a Civil War battlefield near Harpers Ferry as a potential storage site for radioactive nuclear waste from around the country.The Washington Post reported that the governor’s energy office sent the Trump administration a detailed proposal offering four sites for a “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus,” and that neither residents nor local officials were consulted. West Virginia was one of six finalists for the program.Under the program, states that host a campus must agree to store spent nuclear fuel in exchange for federal support for nuclear research, development and production facilities. The administration claims the campuses could create 25,000 jobs.One of the sites was Old Standard Quarry in Jefferson County. The land saw fighting during the Civil War, was later mined and now draws visitors for bungee jumping, tubing and water slides.“I thought it was a...