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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    Yucca Mountain lies in a region of ongoing tectonic deformation, but the deformation rates are too slow to significantly affect the mountain during the 10,000-year regulatory compliance period. Rises in the water table caused by seismic activity would be, at most, a few tens of meters and would not reach the repository.

  3. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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    The amendment explicitly named Yucca Mountain as the only site that DOE was to consider for a permanent repository for the nation's radioactive waste. Years of study and procedural steps remained. The amendment also authorized a monitored retrievable storage facility, but not until the permanent repository was licensed. [12]

  4. Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil ... - AOL

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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.

  5. 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 .

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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]

  8. 'A shameful situation': Angry mountain residents trapped by ...

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    San Bernardino County's mountain communities are still far from recovered almost two weeks since the start of back-to-back monster winter storms. Officials say they'll be better prepared next time.

  9. Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after ...

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    Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and ...