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Because of questions raised by the State of Nevada [57] and congressional members about the quality of the science behind the Yucca Mountain Project, the DOE announced on March 31, 2006, the selection of Oak Ridge Associated Universities/Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (a not-for-profit consortium that includes 96 doctoral degree ...
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin , Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert , south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site .
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Congress overrode Nevada's veto in July 2002. Nevada appealed, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with Nevada in 2004. At least one other jurisdiction (Aiken County, South Carolina in 2011 [1]) filed suit to force Yucca Mountain to accept the nuclear waste from the rest of the US.
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]
In June 2018, the Trump administration and some members of Congress again began proposing using Yucca Mountain, with senators from Nevada raising opposition. [43] In February 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted about a potential change of policy on plans to use Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository for nuclear waste. [44]
Area 25 within the Nevada Test Site. Area 25 is the largest named area in the Nevada National Security Site at 254 square miles (660 km 2), [1] and has its own direct access from Route 95. [1] Area 25 is commonly called "Jackass Flats" because it is composed primarily of a shallow alluvial basin by that name. [1]
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, University of Nevada-Reno (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Read our methodology here. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014. Schools are ranked based on the percentage of their athletic budget that comes from subsidies.