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The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
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Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy's (DOE) potential geological repository designed to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. If approved, the site would be the nation's first geological repository for permanent di .... Middle of Term Paper
... far without the help of water. Opponents led by Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency Director, Bob Loux say the danger is twofold - rain water flowing into the repository from above, and water being pushed up from an aquifer 300 feet below by an earthquake. He says there is crystalline evidence in the rocks at the repository level that indicates hot geothermal water from below has been there before and, therefore, could return. DOE mining engineers says those crystalline forms are more likely the result of minute amounts of water migrating from above over thousands of years. The issue was raised by a former DOE employee turned whistle-blower, Jer ... |
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