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This paper looks at the political and environmental issues surroudning nuclear waste disposal at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada. Considered are scientific groundwater leakage tests and political and public opinion as the site goes forward in 2004. Bibliography lists 4 sources. JVnvnuke.rtf
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site, 100 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The decision has fortified the public utility companies, which have looked to the future of nuclear powered energy promised by the government
to be available by the mid-1990s. The public is not so comfortable with the plan, including residents of Nevada and a nation of people who fear nuclear waste in any
form and feel storage is being forced on them. After an extensive national search started in 1991, the Yucca site was chosen.
Formed by volcanic emissions, government scientists believe it is the safest site in the nation for the repository. After being selected, evidence is piling against the earliest scientific reports of
its efficacy. Wald (2002) claims that steadily flowing rainwater from the mountain can flow to the groundwater below, where it would feed wells and come up in springs in both
Nevada and Utah, well beyond the sites boundaries (Wald, 2002, A.24). When the site was selected, the scientists believed this process would
take "9,000 to 80,000 years," but they had discovered fractures in the rock and in 1997, "scientists found traces of chlorine-36, which does not exist in nature, in the five-mile
tunnel drilled to explore the mountains rock. That meant that material produced by nuclear explosions, the first of which was in 1944, had already penetrated through 800 feet of rock,"
a mere 50 years later (Wald, 2002, A8). In February 2003, a suit was filed stating that Yucca Mountain could not be
used for nuclear waste disposal based on Nevadas inability to meet the criteria of storing the material "for thousands of years" (Wald, 2002, A.24). The suits states that since the
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