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	Yucca Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The defeat of the Yucca Mountain proposal is mission number one for the Nevada Department of Justice.
		Now, after nearly twenty years, it is becoming increasingly clear that Yucca Mountain is incapable of isolating deadly high-level nuclear waste and that construction of this monolithic project will seriously jeopardize the public health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans living along transportation routes.
		Ironically, Yucca Mountain now stands as the greatest obstacle to the development of a sound national solution to the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
	ag.state.nv.us /menu/action_bttn/yucca/yucca.htm (596 words)

	EPA - About Yucca Mountain and the Standards (EPA's Radiation Protection Program - Yucca Mtn. Stds) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy’s potential geologic repository designed to store and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
		The repository is designed to hold 70,000 metric tons of waste, ninety percent of which would be spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants and ten percent of which would be high-level radioactive waste from government defense projects.
		EPA believes that protecting the ground water at and around Yucca Mountain is critical to preserving the quality of the water for this and future generations.
	www.epa.gov /radiation/yucca/about.htm (1823 words)

	Yucca Mountain
		Yucca Mountain is far from large population centers, its climate is very dry, and the mountain has an extremely deep water table.
		Yucca Mountain is in the southern part of the Great Basin where there is very little rainfall, most of which runs off the surface quickly or evaporates.
		Yucca Mountain was formed millions of years ago by a series of explosive volcanic eruptions that deposited ash and material which compressed together to create layers of rock called tuff.
	home.mho.net /novkovic/grb/env/yucca/yuccamtn.html (12674 words)

	Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yucca Mountain is located in a remote desert on federally protected land within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada.
		Yucca Mountain lies in a region of ongoing tectonic deformation, but the deformation rates are too slow to significantly affect the mountain during the 10,000-year regulatory compliance period.
		The fractured and faulted volcanic tuff that comprises Yucca Mountain reflects the occurrence of many earthquake-faulting and strong ground motion events during the last several million years, and the hydrologic characteristics of the rock would not be changed significantly by seismic events that may occur in the next 10,000 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yucca_Mountain_Repository (3289 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Yucca Mountain: Science vs. Politics
		How Yucca Mountain came to be the only site studied by the federal government is a story more than 40 years in the making.
		Yucca Mountain, which is owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the Air Force, was initially chosen as one of nine potential sites in six states.
		The Energy Department maintains that it is neutral on the suitability of Yucca Mountain and is conducting a fair study.
	www.lasvegassun.com /dossier/events/yucca (2174 words)

	Shundahai Network
		Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation and has long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute.
		The Yucca Mountain controversy is rarely acknowledged as one that, at its heart, is about native sovereignty and the need to care for the land in a way that is spiritually responsible and environmentally sound.
		Citizens in other states are finally beginning to understand that Yucca Mountain could be a very bad idea for the entire country, and are leery of having the waste shipped through their communities on rails and highways.
	www.shundahai.org /yucca_mt.html (2050 words)

	Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump - The Road to Disaster
		Representatives of the project have been assuring the public that Yucca Mountain is stable and that burying 77,000 tons of spent radioactive fuel rods and high level waste would be safe 600 to 950 feet under the mountain.
		Yucca Mountain is scheduled to begin receiving shipments in 2010, and are to be continued for at least another 38 years.
		Yucca Mountain is located in one of the most arid and remote deserts in the United States," says the Department of Energy (DOE).
	www.earthmountainview.com /yucca/yucca.htm (15610 words)

	House Approves Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is isolated in an arid location, far from population centers, and the proposed repository is protected by natural geological barriers.
		All that said, claims that the natural and engineered barriers in place at Yucca Mountain guarantee that the waste will remain isolated from the environment for more than 10,000 years have to be viewed with scepticism.
		My understanding is that the repository at Yucca Mountain can be kept open for as long as 300 years, allowing the Department of Energy to monitor the underground storage areas and even retrieve the waste packages.
	www.house.gov /levin/05.07.02.html (513 words)

	Yucca Mountain Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Golan proposes to do this by eliminating spent fuel handling facilities at the repository and using only “standardized” canisters where radioactive waste would be loaded into the containers at the point of origin (i.e., at nuclear power plants), and then stored, transported and disposed of without having to reopen the packaging.
		The fundamental issue at the heart of the debate over the Yucca Mountain radiation exposure limits is whether the mountain can, in fact, keep these deadly materials away from people and out of the environment for the time required to render them harmless – in this case hundreds of thousands of years.
		After waste is emplaced in the mountain, it is never going to be removed, and people living hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of years from now will bear the consequences of that decision.
	www.jbtps.com /yucca/web_yucca_v2_i11.html (2243 words)

	Earthquake Could Cause Flooding Of Yucca Mountain Repository, Study Says
		An earthquake in the vicinity of the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain could cause groundwater to surge up into the storage area, according to a new study by two University of Colorado at Boulder geophysicists.
		The study of Davies and Archambeau was funded by the state of Nevada, which is opposed to the federal repository at Yucca Mountain.
		The region near Yucca Mountain is tectonically active, as witnessed by several recently active volcanic cones within a few miles of the site, the authors said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1997-06/UoCa-ECCF-240697.php (769 words)

	Yucca Mountain
		Research into Yucca Mountain has demonstrated that the area is prone to earthquakes and has experienced violent volcanic activity in the past.
		These cases challenge the selection of Yucca Mountain, radiation standards set for the site by the EPA and changes in the repository's design that appear to be illegal under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (PL 100-203).
		Given the lack of certainty that continues to cloud the future of the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, it is time that Congress again considers the option of safely storing nuclear waste in dry cask storage at the plants where it was produced.
	berkley.house.gov /legis/issues/yucca.html (1972 words)

	Yucca Mountain waste repository
		REPOSITORY: Is a place where things may be put for safekeeping, a warehouse, a museum, a burial vault; a tomb, etc. This is the proper, correct, accurate term for the nuclear waste casks destined for Yucca Mountain.
		The Yucca Mountain opponents and politicians have convinced the masses that paranoia is the right road to take.
		Until the Yucca proponents can prove scientifically, without any room for error, that the site will be stable for the next 10,000 years, and provide hyper-accurate detail for any time frame between now and 10,000 years….like say, February 10, 8005.
	www.nvnuclearenergy.org /YUCCA.htm (722 words)

	Yucca Mountain Waste Repository Moves Forward
		On July 9th, the Senate voted 60-39 to approve Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the nation's central nuclear waste repository.
		To support those who argue that the Yucca Mountain site might be subject to seismic activity, a mild earthquake hit the area in mid-June.
		Opponents of the proposed nuclear waste repository stated that the event clearly indicated why an underground radioactive dumpsite should not be located on an active fault line.
	www.agiweb.org /gap/legis107/tpg_yucca.html (843 words)

	Nevada Sues Again to Block Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
		Yucca Mountain is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas on the edge of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site.
		In order to connect the Yucca Mountain site with an existing rail line, the plan will require the construction of a rail spur at Caliente, Nevada and a 319-mile rail line between the two sites.
		In July the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected Nevada's constitutional challenge to the repository, but ruled the federal government’s 10,000-year federal safety requirement for the highly radioactive waste is illegal because it is inconsistent with the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2004/2004-09-10-03.asp (1166 words)

	Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository
		The Draft EIS of the Department of Energy (DOE) on the Yucca Mountain Repository is premature, scientifically unsound, fundamentally deficient, and improperly dismisses a crucial environmental justice issue.
		IEER's comments on the EPA draft Yucca Mountain rule are attached and are an integral part of these comments on the Yucca Mountain Draft EIS.
		Moreover, the Draft EIS not only dismisses the potential for the repository to be saturated in the future; it does not discuss at all the possibility that upwelling contaminated water may outcrop at the surface (see attached analysis by Dublansky).
	www.ieer.org /comments/waste/yucdeis1.html (2208 words)

	ScienceDaily: Earthquake Could Cause Flooding Of Yucca Mountain Repository, Study Says
		Yucca Mountain Is High And Dry, Say USGS Scientists (June 2, 1999) -- The slow growth rates of calcite and opal minerals that coat fractures and cavities in Yucca Mountain attest to the hydrological stability of that Nevada mountain for the past several million years,...
		Unseen Colorado Mountain Aquifers Throw Water On 'Teflon Basin' Myth (June 6, 2005) -- New research shows that high-altitude aquifers honeycomb parts of the Colorado Rockies, trapping snow melt and debunking the myth that high mountain valleys act as "Teflon basins" to rush water...
		Unseen Colorado Mountain Aquifers Throw Water On 'Teflon Basin' Myth (November 11, 2004) -- New University of Colorado at Boulder research shows high-altitude aquifers honeycomb parts of the Colorado Rockies, trapping snowmelt and debunking the myth that high mountain valleys act as "Teflon...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1997/06/970629235257.htm (2125 words)

	Energy Department simplifies Yucca Mountain repository design
		The improved design is intended to simplify fuel handling and the construction of the repository, while easing complexities of Yucca Mountain’s post-construction operations.
		The new path envisions spent fuel being delivered to Yucca Mountain primarily in standard canisters which are then placed in a waste package for emplacement, without handling individual fuel canisters.
		The old design was unique to the proposed repository, as no similar facilities had ever been built or licensed in the United States.
	www.caprep.com /1005051.htm (466 words)

	OCRWM - Home
		Our mission is to manage and dispose of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in a manner that protects health, safety and the environment; enhances national and energy security; and merits public confidence.
		Following more than 20 years of study by the U.S. Department of Energy, Congress approved in July 2002 the President’s recommendation of the Yucca Mountain site for development as a repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
		Yucca Mountain offers tours, educational events, speaking engagements and much more.
	www.ocrwm.doe.gov (231 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Yucca Mountain Overhaul Proposed
		TEST SYSTEM Model waste canisters at Yucca Mountain are used for gauging the impact of temperature and heat.
		The Bush Administration sent legislation to Capitol Hill April 5 that attempts to clear obstacles and speed licensing and construction of the contentious and long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
		In 2002, President George W. Bush and Congress agreed that Yucca Mountain was the best location for a permanent repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/news/84/i15/8415yuccamountain.html (446 words)

	Yucca Proposed Radation Standards
		Since groundwater contamination would deliver Yucca's worst doses of radioactivity to nearby residents, water quality must be protected to the fullest extent of the law, which this proposed NRC rule fails to do.
		Yucca Mountain's rock may not be capable of containing such high levels of thermal heat and radioactivity.
		Due to the tremendous uncertainty associated with the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, radiation protection standards for the public health and the environment should be more stringent, rather than the less stringent standards NRC puts forth in this proposed rule.
	www.ienearth.org /yucca_mt_2.html (1296 words)

	Cyberwest - The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
		n earthquake in the vicinity of the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain could cause groundwater to surge up into the storage area, according to a new study by two University of Colorado at Boulder geophysicists.
		avies and Archambeau believe that the presence of open fractures underneath Yucca Mountain has allowed the water table to descend to unusually low depths, and that closed fractures to the north have resulted in a more normal water table level.
		The region near Yucca Mountain is tectonically active, as there are several recently active volcanic cones within a few miles of the site, the authors said.
	www.cyberwest.com /cw14/14scwst2.html (808 words)

	Yucca Mountain Update - December 4, 2002
		Although the political battle over the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository ended in July, Nevada’s legal fight continues – with the ultimate goal of derailing the scientifically- and legally-challenged project.
		Nevada also is claiming that the DOE failed to prepare and publish a mandatory Record of Decision; failed to define the project in accordance with law; unlawfully deferred transportation analysis; failed to secure a hazardous waste permit from Nevada; and included wastes that are not eligible for disposal under the law.
		These documents indicate that, if the repository’s man-made waste packages do not perform perfectly for at least 10,000 years, the radiation doses humans will receive in the local environment will be far beyond levels permissible by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
	www.state.nv.us /nucwaste/yucca/ymupdate/ymupdate021204.htm (1198 words)

	Eureka County, Nevada -- Yucca Mountain.org -- What's New
		November 27, 2006 — Yucca plan revisits region — Nuclear waste on its way to Yucca Mountain could pass through Northern Nevada under a proposed railroad shipping route being studied by the Department of Energy that is the topic of a public meeting today in Reno — Reno Gazette Journal
		But Reid said bills by the Bush administration and repository supporters that would allow nuclear waste to be sent to Nevada on an early schedule, or that would speed land withdrawals, permits and licenses, never would see the Senate floor.
		October 14, 2006 — Yucca public meetings slated — 'Mina corridor' rail plan to be discussed —WASHINGTON -- Public meetings in Nevada were announced Friday as the Energy Department prepares to conduct new environmental studies for the Yucca Mountain Project.
	www.yuccamountain.org /new.htm (879 words)

	INEEL designing prototype system for Yucca Mountain repository
		Federal law designated Yucca Mountain as the site to be studied for licensing as the national repository for commercial and government spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste.
		This expertise will help the Yucca Mountain Project and help meet the nation's need for the safe storage of nuclear waste," Wheatley said.
		Wheatley noted the INEEL is working on a number of other repository-related projects, including support in preparing the license application, analysis of criticality events, surface facility design, verification and validation of software for modeling the repository and preparing a corrective management plan for systems.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-03/dne-idp031504.php (600 words)

	ANA Stop Yucca Mountain Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The House voted May 8, 2002 by a vote of 306-117 to approve H J Res 87, the resolution approving Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the nation's nuclear dump (see roll call vote).
		The Senate voted July 9, 2002 to approve Yucca Mountain by a vote of 60-39.
		The recorded vote (see roll call vote) was on a motion to proceed, with the actual vote on Senate Joint Resolution 34 being a voice vote in favor of Yucca Mountain.
	www.ananuclear.org /yuccapage.html (545 words)

	ET 03/01: Strong radiation protection standards essential for Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
		The national and Nevada-based groups, which actively oppose the Yucca Mountain repository proposal, were joined by Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn and Sens.
		Yucca Mountain, located near Las Vegas, NV, is currently the only site under consideration for a potential dump for high-level radioactive waste generated by US commercial reactors and weapons facilities.
		The DOE is expected later this year to recommend the Yucca Mountain site for development as a permanent repository for 77,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste.
	www.sdearthtimes.com /et0301/et0301s11.html (745 words)

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