Here you will
find our largest selection of photographs.
This archival collection includes
images dating back to the late 1980s.
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The Sample Management
Facility, which opened in 1989,
is used to store and record rock
samples for the Yucca Mountain
Project. |
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Prototype dry-hole
drilling operations at Mercury
Gold Mine near Salt Lake City,
Utah, in May 1989. |
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Members
of the Nuclear Waste Technical
Review Board visit Trench 14 in
June 1989. |
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The Yucca Mountain
information office opens in March
1990. |
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Visitors at the newly
opened Yucca Mountain information
office, March 1990. |
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Surveyors prepare
Midway Valley for pad excavation
in February 1991. |
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Pre-excavation view
of Midway Valley in February 1991. |
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In July 1991, Trench
14 was excavated across the Bow
Bridge Fault to study the origin
of calcite silica deposits. |
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Final
configuration of Trench 14 in
July 1991. |
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LM-300
prototype drilling in Tooele,
Utah, in July 1991. |
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Environmental
studies on Exile Hill in July
1991. |
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In July
1991, the climatology program
studied past climates to predict
future climates. |
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Core
drilling activities with the Central
Mine Equipment drill rig on the
crest of Yucca in April 1992. |
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Prototype
mapping activities at the Fran
Ridge Test Pit in November 1992. |
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Prototype
mapping activities at the Fran
Ridge Pit in November 1992. |
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Initial
excavation activities at the north
portal in January 1993. |
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Aerial
view of the Exploratory Studies
Facility in January 1993. |
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Aerial
view of north end of the Yucca
Mountain crest in February 1993. |
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Completion
of the Exploratory Studies Facility's
"Box Cut" excavation
in March 1993. |
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Starter
tunnel excavation activities at
the Exploratory Studies Facility
in June 1993. |
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