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Bookmark or Share- To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop ...Yucca Mountain was a recurrent theme in witness testimony and congressional questioning throughout the hearing. But to really advance federal policy and innovation on spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to learn the lessons of Yucca Mountain and to stop trying to revive it.
- Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - WikipediaThe Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [2] is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
- Yucca Mountain: A rare tour of the Nevada desert tunnel that is ground ...About 100 miles outside Las Vegas, deep in a remote patch of desert, is a $19 billion hole in the ground. That's how much it has cost to fight over and build a five-mile test tunnel under Yucca...
- What is the Yucca Mountain repository? | US EPAThe Yucca Mountain repository is the proposed spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) repository where both types of radioactive waste could be disposed. If constructed, it would use a tunnel complex approximately 1000 feet below the top of Yucca Mountain and about 1000 feet above the aquifer underlying the repository.
- Why US nuclear waste policy got stalled. And what to do about it.The US Energy Department dug an horizontal 25-foot-diameter tunnel under Yucca Mountain to determine its suitability as a geologic repository for the nation's commercial spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
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