Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain is a barren desert ridge about 90 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. The U.S. Department of Energy plans to build its first high-level nuclear waste storage fa...
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Yucca Mountain
The United States has accumulated more than forty thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes from commercial, research, and defense activities with an estimat...
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On the subject of Yucca Mountain being developed into a radioactive and nuclear waste depository, I have many opinions. On one side, a part of me sees the importance of finding an adequate spot to sto...
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Nuclear technology has given us radio-chemotherapy, the PET scan, smoke detectors, methods for sterilizing food and mail, electricity, means of efficient space travel, and is even used to count ream...
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The House killed "Yucca Mountain Johnny" on Wednesday.A measure by Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., to cut off funding for the Energy Department's Yucca Mountain Youth Zone Web site that's home to the...
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The head of the Yucca Mountain project said Wednesday that although 2017 is the goal for opening the Nevada nuclear waste dump, it will likely happen three or four years after that.There could be m...
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The Energy Department is cutting operations and the chief contractor is laying off its staff at the desert site where the government plans to build a national nuclear waste repository, officials sa...
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The Energy Department unveiled legislation Tuesday to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., immediately ...
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The Energy Department unveiled legislation Tuesday to spur construction of a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada and increase its capacity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., immediately ...
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The Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama camps clashed Thursday in Nevada over two radio ads in an escalating exchange of words that laid bare the stakes involved in Saturday's presidential cauc...
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House kills 'Yucca Mountain Johnny'
