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.](images/ym_00450_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_00630_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_00727_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_00881_thumbnail.jpg) |
The Yucca Mountain
information office opens in March
1990. |
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![Visitors at the newly opened Yucca Mountain information office, March 1990.](images/ym_00893_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_01100_thumbnail.jpg) |
Surveyors prepare
Midway Valley for pad excavation
in February 1991. |
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![Pre-excavation view of Midway Valley in February 1991.](images/ym_01103_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_01335_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_01420_thumbnail.jpg) |
Final
configuration of Trench 14 in
July 1991. |
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![LM-300 prototype drilling in Tooele, Utah, in July 1991.](images/ym_01435_thumbnail.jpg) |
LM-300
prototype drilling in Tooele,
Utah, in July 1991. |
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![Environmental studies on Exile Hill in July 1991.](images/ym_01511_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_01594_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_02400_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_03508_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_03519_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_03735_thumbnail.jpg) |
Initial
excavation activities at the north
portal in January 1993. |
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![Aerial view of the Exploratory Studies Facility in January 1993.](images/ym_03839_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_03851_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_04231_thumbnail.jpg) |
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.](images/ym_04885_thumbnail.jpg) |
Starter
tunnel excavation activities at
the Exploratory Studies Facility
in June 1993. |
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