The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [2] 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.

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Between 1944 and 1989, the US produced plutonium for use in nuclear weapons at the DOE’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the Tri-Cities. Washington hosts and oversees the cleanup of nearly two-thirds of the nation’s defense-related, high-level radioactive waste at Hanford.

2012年5月8日 · The state's official position is that Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation's high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel for several reasons: GEOLOGY and LOCATION: There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site.

2020年9月3日 · The Yucca Mountain repository is the proposed spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) repository where both types of radioactive waste could be disposed. If constructed, it would use a tunnel complex approximately 1000 feet below the top of Yucca Mountain and about 1000 feet above the aquifer underlying the repository.

2024年7月31日 · The US Energy Department dug an horizontal 25-foot-diameter tunnel under Yucca Mountain to determine its suitability as a geologic repository for the nation's commercial spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

2024年4月30日 · In the 2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and Joe Biden agreed there shouldn’t be an underground repository to permanently store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and that it was time for everyone else to accept that the project was finally off the table.

2021年12月2日 · The capacity of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain should not exceed its limits. Existing nuclear waste should be controlled/treated with caution to avoid creating more danger and control creating new nuclear waste.

2023年9月4日 · The fight to stop a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain has lasted for over three decades. For Nevada's Congressional delegation and the Western Shoshone, it's a question that...

2020年3月12日 · High-Level Waste Disposal NRC's Yucca Mountain Licensing Activities. The NRC resumed work on its technical and environmental reviews of the Yucca Mountain application using available funds in response to an August 2013 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is a vast and complex project with a history dating back over 20 years. This FAQ page provides a general overview of the key facts and debates surrounding the issue. What is the current status of the Yucca Mountain project? What are spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste?