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Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only U.S. site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congress singled out Yucca Mountain in the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation exposure standards, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing the repository.
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Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is the only site under consideration for disposal of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. Congressional politics singled out Yucca Mountain in the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for implementing the program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets radiation exposure standards, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for licensing the repository.
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Yucca Mountain, the proposed dump site for the country’s high-level radioactive waste, is located only 90 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. The dump is supposed to safely dispose of 77,000 tons of deadly radioactive waste. Yet the selection of Yucca Mountain and the process to open a repository there have been guided more by politics than science.
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