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The storage standard set a dose limit of 15 millirem per year for the public outside the Yucca Mountain site. The disposal standards consisted of three components: an individual dose standard, a standard evaluating the impacts of human intrusion into the repository, and a groundwater protection standard.
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]
European limits are often more stringent than the standard suggested in 1990 by the International Commission on Radiation Protection by a factor of 20, and more stringent by a factor of ten than the standard proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository for the first 10,000 years after ...
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.
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 .
Environmental Protection Agency – Yucca Mountain (documents) Grist.org – How to tell future generations about nuclear waste (article) 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
European limits are often more stringent than the standard suggested in 1990 by the International Commission on Radiation Protection by a factor of 20, and more stringent by a factor of ten than the standard proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository for the first 10,000 years ...
A large square grid pattern across the site, through which large spikes protrude at various angles. Leaning Stone Spikes 70 feet (21 m) tall and 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 m) across at the base, at a slope of 1:14. Menacing Earthworks Large mounds of earth shaped like lightning bolts, emanating from the edges of a square site.