What is Yucca Mountain and what is its proposed use?
The Department of Energy (DOE) is studying Yucca Mountain as a potential repository for radioactive waste. If approved, the site would be the nation’s first geological repository for permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Yucca Mountain is located in Nye County, Nevada, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas on federally-owned land on the edge of the Nevada Test Site.
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