David Klaus

David Klaus is a former deputy under secretary at the US Department of Energy and counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives. He currently works as an independent consultant on energy issues, serves as senior advisor to a major consulting firm and is on the boards of nonprofit organizations.


Articles by David Klaus

To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Why Biden should designate a nuclear waste negotiator

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion
Rendering of proposed HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

Private, centralized storage for spent nuclear fuel: A dead end or path forward?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Four powerful players want a nuclear waste solution. What’s stopping them?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Energy Department representatives presented Yucca Mountain license application to the NRC on June 3, 2008.

If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

What really went wrong at WIPP: An insider’s view of two accidents at the only US underground nuclear waste repository

By David Klaus | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons