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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 ...
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.
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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.
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 .
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]
As the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository – like elsewhere in the world – is controversial, on- or off-site storage in the US usually takes place in Independent Spent Fuel Storage Facilities (ISFSI's). [10] In the UK, all eleven Magnox reactors are in decommissioning under responsibility of the NDA.
Rachel Yonkunas, who worked for the local news network since 2022, was stunned in September after her superiors demanded she take a $10,000 pay cut to join the station’s morning broadcast.