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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [2] 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.

  3. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. 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]

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

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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. US Supreme Court to hear nuclear waste storage dispute - AOL

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    Such sites have continued to be licensed, with a proposal to permanently store the nation's radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain north of Las Vegas stalled following decades of opposition in Nevada.

  7. Nuclear waste project near Carlsbad delayed again amid ... - AOL

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    Holtec proposed to build the facility near the Eddy-Lea county line to hold high-level waste from nuclear power reactors across the country.

  8. 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.

  9. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. opted for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a final repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but this project was widely opposed, with some of the main concerns being long-distance transportation of waste from across the United States to this site, the possibility of accidents, and the uncertainty of success in isolating nuclear ...