Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
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yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-repository-166-199972
title:
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
text:
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 80 mi (130 km) northwest of the Las Vegas Valley. The project was approved in 2002 by the 107th United States Congress, but the 112th C
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Unused deep geological repository facility in Nevada, US
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository
date created:
2002-10-27T21:25:28Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:43:12Z
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