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Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain. By: Connor McInnes. What is it?. It is a mountain in Nevada, close to the California border It was going to be a deep geological storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel, and other high level radioactive waste.

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Yucca Mountain

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  1. Yucca Mountain By: Connor McInnes

  2. What is it? • It is a mountain in Nevada, close to the California border • It was going to be a deep geological storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel, and other high level radioactive waste. • It was to be located on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.

  3. What happened? • Even though it was only 100 miles away from Las Vegas Valley the plan was approved in 2002 by the United States Congress. • However, under the Obama Administration funding for the development of Yucca Mountain was terminated in 2011 due to budget costs.

  4. Effects? • US GAO (Government Accountability Office) stated that the storage facility was shut down for political reason not technical or safety reasons. • As this plan is denied this leaves the United States without any long term storage facility for spent nuclear waste • All of the United States nuclear waste is now building up in nuclear power plants around the country with no where to store it.

  5. Bibliography • http://www.yuccamountain.org/yucca03.jpg • http://photos.lasvegassun.com/media/img/photos/2008/01/06/yucca_t655.jpg?23d0d85dc3029222a8299eec08aff692318f4809 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain

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