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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    An infographic about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Spent nuclear fuel is the radioactive by-product of electricity generation at commercial nuclear power plants, and high-level radioactive waste is the by-product of reprocessing spent fuel to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. [19]

  3. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes. The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the sole repository.

  4. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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    Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...

  5. Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil ... - AOL

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    Opposition to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain has united Nevadans across political lines — until now. A Senate candidate has spoken favorably about the idea.

  6. Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia

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    It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.

  7. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository is an unfinished, currently defunct deep geological repository in Nye County, Nevada. In 1987, Congress selected Yucca Mountain to be researched as the potential first permanent repository of nuclear waste, and directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to disregard other proposed sites and study Yucca ...

  8. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began studying Yucca Mountain, within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, to determine whether it would be suitable for a long-term geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. This project faced significant opposition and suffered ...

  9. Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future

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    US nuclear waste management policy completely broke down with the ending of work on the incomplete Yucca Mountain Repository. [2] Without a long-term solution to store nuclear waste, a nuclear renaissance in the U.S. remains unlikely. Nine states have "explicit moratoria on new nuclear power until a storage solution emerges". [3] [4]