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Bookmark or Share- Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository: What You Need to KnowCue Yucca Mountain, the government's solution to nuclear waste disposal. The proposed plan was to build a tunnel to house spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) , keeping the nuclear radioactive waste deep underground, isolated from the surrounding environment, per the EPA.
- What are the characteristics of Yucca Mountain? | US EPAYucca Mountain is a volcanic ridge located in Nye County, Nevada, approximately 90 miles south-southwest of the county seat, Tonopah, and 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The area has a desert climate. Yucca Mountain is made of layers of ashfalls from volcanic eruptions that happened more than 10 million years ago.
- 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.
- Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - WikipediaThe Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, 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.
- The Fight Against Yucca Mountain - NevadaThe state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons: GEOLOGY and LOCATION: There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site.
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