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Yucca Mountain, Open For Business

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-I-didn't-know-I-was-moving-next-door-to-the-test-site dept.

John Galt writes: "It seems the Feds have finally decided that Nevada will host the government's nuclear waste repository." The Yucca Mountain project has been in the works for a while. Here is a cutaway diagram.

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  1. The real usage... by Mike+Connell · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    What could be safer than disposing of unwanted bodies in the Nevada desert? Stick them in an enormous nuclear silo with 77 000 tons of stuff that'll kill you if you get near it! ;-)

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  2. Should that not be Yucka mountain? by jonr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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