Yucca Mountain
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The decision to actually store waste at Yucca Mountain remains politically charged.
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Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
That same year, Congress was pushing forward plans to bury waste beneath Yucca Mountain.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Neither Yucca Mountain nor an interim site is going to receive waste under the current legal system.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
The proposed Yucca Mountain project in Nevada was mothballed and a temporary storage site planned on a Native American reservation in Utah was sidelined despite being licensed by the NRC in 2006.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
The United States has spent billions of dollars over decades on a project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada to store nuclear waste.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022
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