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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia

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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 .

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  5. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  6. Pacific Northwest reeling from bomb cyclone; atmospheric ...

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    A bomb cyclone pounding Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and strong winds was already blamed for two deaths and will likely fuel flooding, rock slides, debris flows ...

  7. 7.0 magnitude earthquake reported off Northern California ...

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    A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast ...

  8. Yucca Flat - Wikipedia

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    Yucca Flat is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten miles (16 km) north of Frenchman Flat, and 65 miles (105 km) from Las Vegas, Nevada. [2]

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