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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