Yucca Mountain
Nuclear waste repository safe for future generations
After two decades of studies, tests, experiments, simulations, and assessments, scientists have given the green light to the nuclear waste repository proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Future generations are unlikely to be harmed—ever—by its radioactive stores.
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