Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
View to the west from the top of Yucca Mountain
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YuccaMountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great...
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radioactive wastes. The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate YuccaMountain, Nevada, as the sole repository. The act allowed Nevada to override...
plans to use YuccaMountain in Nevada as a repository for nuclear waste. Trump's previous budgets have included funding for YuccaMountain but, according...
natural gas in 2005, which has generated more than half since then. YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository is the proposed U.S. Department of Energy deep...
opposition in comparison to similar facilities around the nation such as YuccaMountain in Nevada. The EEG, in addition to acting as a check for the government...
found, the government placed a temporary facility on YuccaMountain to contain the waste. YuccaMountain is also on Native Land and is considered a sacred...
policy completely broke down with the ending of work on the incomplete YuccaMountain Repository. At present there are 70 nuclear power plant sites where...
fuel to be disposed under oxidising conditions in volcanic tuff at the YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository. However, carbonate anions easily replace iodide...
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with concrete. The U.S. planned to store plutonium in this way at the YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository, which is about 100 miles (160 km) north-east...
YuccaMountain was expected to open in 2017. However, on March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu reiterated in a Senate hearing that the Yucca Mountain...
tests conducted by the United States Department of Energy at NTS. The YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository is southwest of Groom Lake. Groom Lake is a...
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The Agency oversees the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) proposed YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository project, Federal high-level radioactive waste...
mandamus ordering the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to process the YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository license. In Americans for Safe Access v. Drug...
USA, YuccaMountain was initially selected as the final storage site, but this project was temporarily halted in February 2009. YuccaMountain was the...
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