Here you will
find our largest selection of photographs.
This archival collection includes
images dating back to the late 1980s.
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Heater assembly
construction for the drift scale test
in July 1997. |
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Secretary of Energy Federico
Peña visits Yucca Mountain in
August 1997. |
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Heater test
start-up ceremonies on December 3, 1997. |
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Construction activities
at the intersection of the main drift
and the cross drift in January 1998. |
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Moisture migration experiment
in Alcove 1 of the Exploratory Studies
Facility in March 1998. |
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16-foot-diameter boring
machine assembly in the launch bay of
the Exploratory Studies Facility, March
1998. |
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Under Secretary of Energy
Ernest Moniz visits Yucca Mountain on
March 25, 1998. |
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Completed mining phase
of the test alcove in Busted Butte,
April 1998. |
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Test preparation
activities at Busted Butte, April 1998. |
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Secretary
of Energy Bill Richardson visits Yucca
Mountain on October 27, 1998. |
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Engineered
barrier system pilot scale test at the
Atlas Facility in December 1998. |
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Construction
of the global positioning system monitoring
site at Yucca Mountain in February 1999. |
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View of the
engineered barrier system at the Atlas
Facility in March 1999. |
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Completed
phase of the engineered barrier system
showing drip shield and heater element
at Atlas Facility on November 1999. |
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Alpine mining
machines are used in the Exploratory
Studies Facility to excavate alcoves
and niches for scientific testing. |
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Hydrologic
monitoring in the cross drift, May 2000. |
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Hydrology
experiment in Alcove 8 of the cross
drift in April 2001. |
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Heater element
installation for thermal testing in
the cross drift, April 2001. |
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Under Secretary
of Energy Robert Card visits Yucca Mountain,
July 26, 2001. |
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Public open
house tour visitors on the crest of
Yucca Mountain, November 2001. |
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On January 7, 2002, Secretary
of Energy Spencer Abraham visited the
facilities at Yucca Mountain. |
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On January 14, 2002, the
Yucca Mountain Project turned off the
electrical heaters on the drift scale
test. This completed the initial four-year
phase of the test. |
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