Where in Nye County is the Yucca Mountain repository located?
Yucca Mountain is located at the edge of the Nevada Test Site where more than 900 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted. With approximately 1,375 square miles, this site is surrounded by thousands of additional acres of land withdrawn from the public domain for use as a protected wildlife range and for a military gunnery range, creating an unpopulated land area comprising some 5,470 square miles. The U.S. Air Force Nevada Test and Training Range (formerly called the Nellis Air Force Range) with its restricted airspace and defensive capabilities surrounds the Yucca Mountain area on three sides.
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- If Yucca Mountain, Nevada is approved as the permanent federal repository for high level nuclear waste and spent fuel, will the Skull Valley temporary storage site be needed?
- Can this plan proceed if the Yucca Mountain national repository doesn open?
- Where in Nye County is the Yucca Mountain repository located?
