Honestly… same reason the US hasn’t cleaned up contaminated water etc from the Manhattan Project that’s currently stored in Eastern Washington…. We don’t know how to yet.
America loves to play war games in Ukraine and the Middle East but oddly can’t find the dollars to make things right
https://youtu.be/e_QvTPNEXFQ?si=5CYJBVY0B25MDALT
What political party would be upset if USA gave this community a few billion dollars to you know fix their land allow them to grow food and live a normal existence for overall wellbeing. Instead we pump money into AI chips.