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The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
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Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy's (DOE) potential geological repository designed to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. If approved, the site would be the nation's first geological repository for permanent disposal of this type of radioactive waste. It is located ....
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....s it takes thousands of years for water to make its way through Yucca Mountain to the repository 800 feet below ground. But last year, scientists found "bomb pulse" water - water containing unique radioactive traces that could only come from atomic tests conducted within the last 50 years. That proves the water made it through the mountain less than half a century. That should disqualify the site based on the speed of groundwater flow through the mountain. But according to Dan Soter the U.S. Geo.... |
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