It's just a lonely ridge of volcanic rock in Nevada, but it's generating more controversy than an indicted CEO. It's where the US Department of Energy wants to build a permanent underground repository for high-level nuclear waste. This paper discusses the arguments for and against Yucca Mountain.
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