Informative article about Yucca Mountain from Bldgblog:

Abraham Van Luik is a geoscientist with the U.S. Department of Energy; he is currently based at the nuclear waste-entombment site proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Yucca Mountain,
a massive landform created by an extinct supervolcano inside what is
now Nellis Air Force Base’s Nevada Test and Training Range, 90 miles
northwest of Las Vegas, is the controversial site chosen by Congress
for the storage of nuclear waste. Its political fate remains uncertain…

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