PROPOSED NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
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FIGURE 12.17 After investments of billions of dollars in geologic and engineering studies, construction, and development of detailed handling procedures for high-level nuclear waste, plans for the Yucca Mountain Repository were abandoned in 2009. Discussions concerning opening the site were reopened in the U.S. Congress in 2015, which added uncertainty to the proposed repository. (From U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)