Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Disposal

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Anthony shaffer intelligence officer. Showdown at yucca mountain by kenneth c. 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. 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.

Yucca mountain and the us is the national program most advanced in providing the worlds first long term high level underground nuclear waste repository but the international tunneling community can expect that excavation for similar repositories around the world will become a major source of activity in the decades to come. For awhile yucca mountain was thought to be the answer to this issue. 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.

2 how would yucca mountain work. Yucca mountain is a geological disposal site. 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.

Carter the administrations decision to withdraw the application for a nuclear waste repository at yucca mountain nevada lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nations effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of. Barrett luther j. Without the yucca mountain nuclear waste repository there is no long term storage site for high level radioactive waste disposal.