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 facility there in an extensive series of tunnels deep beneath the...

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 estimated two thousand tons added every year. The materials are currently...

Yucca Mountain is a ridge line in Nye County, in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Nevada. It is composed of volcanic material (mostly tuff) ejected from a now-extinct caldera-forming supervolcano. Yucca Mountain is most notable as the site of...

00-00-0000 Yucca Mountain -- Senate OKs plan to dispose of nuclear waste Date: 07-10-2002, Wednesday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B LATE YESTERDAY, the U.S. Senate signed off on an ambitious plan to send radioactive...

Destination: Yucca Mountain What will happen when Yucca Mountain fills up? By ALFRED MEYER Sunday, July 21, 2002 In the 1980s, Wisconsin was seriously considered as a site for long term storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste. If our current...

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 smiling, hard-hatted cartoon character was approved by lawmakers by a voice vote and...

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 more litigation and delays in getting construction authority from the Nuclear...

Discusses the cons of using Yucca Mountain for a nuclear waste "trash can." Examines the geology of the mountain.

Provides aurguments on why the Nevada Yucca mountain project should be supported. Describes the project in detail. Discusses energy problems in the United States.