Yucca Mountain

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1. A site in Nevada designed for the permanent storage of nuclear waste, although none had yet been stored there as of 2002.

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The decision to actually store waste at Yucca Mountain remains politically charged.

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Brown’s campaign did not respond when asked whether his remarks represented his current views about Yucca Mountain, but provided a statement from the Army combat veteran.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Finding a final resting site for all that nuclear waste is "a pernicious problem in search of a solution," and plans to build a permanent underground storage repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, "have been indefinitely suspended."

From Salon

The director L. Frances Henderson based this very personal debut on John D’Agata’s lauded book “About a Mountain,” which deftly yoked the suicide of a teenager in Las Vegas to the Department of Energy’s since-scuttled plans to use Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of that city, as a repository for nuclear waste.

From New York Times

That same year, Congress was pushing forward plans to bury waste beneath Yucca Mountain.

From New York Times