Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site

By allison macfarlane february 21 2020.

Nuclear war yes no sci hub cannot open. Nevadas yucca mountain facility should be used to store the nations nuclear waste and america should pay. We should pay nevada to use it. Yucca mountain is the safest spot for nuclear waste.

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. The site is on federal land adjacent to the nevada test site in nye county nevada about 80 mi 130 km northwest of the. 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 energy department dug this 25 foot diameter tunnel under yucca mountain to explore its potential as a nuclear waste repository. 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. 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.