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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia

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    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. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository , which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility.

  6. Federal appeals court kills Holtec's license for temporary ...

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    Apr. 1—A federal appeals court has nullified Holtec International's license to store commercial nuclear waste from power plants across the country in a temporary underground site the company ...

  7. Oil & gas industry joins fight against nuclear waste site ...

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    The group argued nuclear waste storage in the region could also endanger the oil and gas industry, a major arm of the local and national economy, along with nearby farming and ranching producers.

  8. 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]

  9. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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    Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...