Nuclear Waste Yucca Mountain

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.

Nuclear reactor reflector nuclear umbrella countries. Yucca mountain has been in the news recently for it being touted as a potential site for nuclear waste storage. The 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 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.

He asked william boyle from the. We should pay nevada to use it. The yucca mountain nuclear waste repository located on a piece of land adjoining the nevada test site in nye county nevada was designed to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and other high level radioactive waste as designated by the nuclear waste policy act amendments of 1987.

It is an outcome that feels forced upon the state by washington dc. President trump has made a u turn on funding the long delayed and long debated yucca mountain nuclear waste repository in nevada but its unclear what his decision means for moving the 355. Transporting nuclear waste to yucca mountain 60 minutes 202303 correspondent jonathan vigliotti received a rare tour of the tunnel at yucca mountain.

There is high level resistance in nevada regarding the yucca mountain nuclear waste repository because it feels like it is something forced upon them by the federal government. This understandably has caused some controversy in the media but is this just. The site is on federal land adjacent to the nevada test site in nye county nevada about 80 mi 130 km northwest of the.