Yucca Mountain - Nevada's Perspective

Yucca Mountain—that barren rise in the desert ninety miles from Las Vegas—is the nation‘s only site identified for the potential location of the first ge ological repository for commercially-generated HLNW and SNF. Many assume
that Yucca Mountain has geologic and climatic qualities that make it uniquely
suitable to isolate the thousands of metric tons of the world‘s most lethal, long lived waste currently accumulating at 104 operating nuclear power plants across the United States.
Unfortunately, Yucca Mountain is an exceptionally bad site,
and there are innumerable sound technical reasons to end the project. In addition,
there is a history of institutional misconduct on the part of federal government
agents which has so pervaded the controversial project that it has undermined
whatever public confidence may have once existed in the program.