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2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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   The site is on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 80 mi (130 km) northwest of the Las Vegas Valley. The project was approved in 2002 by the 107th United States Congress , but the 112th Congress ended federal funding for the site via amendment to the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing ...

3. Frenchman Flat - Wikipedia

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   Frenchman Flat is a hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site [2] south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, Nevada. The flat was used as an American nuclear test site and has a 5.8 sq mi (15 km 2 ) dry lake bed (Frenchman Lake) that was used as a 1950s airstrip before it was chosen after the start of the Korean War for the Nevada ...

4. Agency for Nuclear Projects - Wikipedia

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   The Agency oversees the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project, Federal high-level radioactive waste management program, and related Federal programs. The Agency remains prepared to act to support Nevada's interests as they relate to high-level radioactive waste management.

5. Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S ...

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6. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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   Waste containers have a modeled lifetime of 12,000 to over 100,000 years [23] and it is assumed they will fail in about two million years. A 1983 review of the Swedish radioactive waste disposal program by the National Academy of Sciences found that country's estimate of about one million years being necessary for waste isolation "fully justified."

7. List of Superfund sites in Nevada - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Nevada designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]