This is just part of the Yucca Mountain License Application. |
The Department of Energy must ask permission from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission before it can build the Yucca Mountain repository.
To ask permission, we (the Department of Energy) submitted a large and detailed report.
It was about 8,600 pages long. That would fill an entire book case!
The report, called a License Application, is so long because it describes how we plan to keep people and the environment safe for up to 1 million years, even if things like earthquakes happen.
It describes 30 years' worth of science experiments and complicated computer programming. It also shows pictures of the buildings and tunnels we plan to build.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gets up to four years to study and evaluate the report. If the Commission believes we did our science correctly, and agrees with our report, it will grant permission to build the repository.
Last reviewed: 07/08
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