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A map showing Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada, west of the Nevada Test Site. The DOE was scheduled to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain repository by January 31, 1998 (26 years ago) (). By 2010, years after this deadline, the future status of the repository at Yucca Mountain was still unknown due to ongoing litigation, and ...
Nuclear Files.org – Yucca Mountain Archived 2007-02-27 at the Wayback Machine (documents) Worries can't be buried as nuclear waste piles up, Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2008; YouTube archive of 2011-05-13 testimony given to BRC.
[18] On March 5, 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a Senate hearing the Yucca Mountain site is no longer viewed as an option for storing reactor waste. [19] In Obama's 2011 budget proposal released February 1, all funding for nuclear waste disposal was zeroed out for the next ten years and it proposed to dissolve the Office of Civilian ...
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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 .
Gregory B. Jaczko (/ ˈ j ɑː s k oʊ /; [citation needed] born October 29, 1970, Norristown, Pennsylvania) is a physicist who is the 13th and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 2009 to 2012.
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In The Road to Yucca Mountain, Walker covers the U.S. government's controversial attempts to address the engineering and social issues associated with high-level radioactive waste repository (HLRWR) management and spent reactor fuel (SRF). He starts with the Manhattan Project and works through the policy debate.