Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage

Nuclear energy is an important element of our electrical production.

Medicina nuclear guanabara caxias. An isolated location with many natural barriers is necessary for the safe storage of nuclear waste. 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. Unfortunately nuclear waste is a necessary by product requiring the utmost safety.

Yucca mountain is the safest spot for nuclear waste. Yucca mountain proposed nuclear waste depository. Yucca mountain best seems to fit the requirements for a repository.

On april 9 2015. Nevadas yucca mountain facility should be used to store the nations nuclear waste and america should pay. Nuclear waste storage debate heats up again 0452.

Every major candidate for president has joined nevadas crusade to stop the completion of a long delayed nuclear waste storage site under yucca mountain some 100 miles northwest of las vegas. It seems like the good citizens of nevada would sooner elect an orangutan as governor than let the federal government fill yucca mountain with. We should pay nevada to use it.

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. Nuclear waste storage debate heats up again. About 100 miles outside las vegas deep in a remote patch of desert is a 19 billion hole in the.

The government and american utilities currently use the waste isolation pilot plant in new mexico to manage waste or have resorted to dry cast storage on site using steel and concrete casks.