Yucca Mountain Project Information
Location
Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Yucca Mountain Project was selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) as a highly promising repository site to safely store spent nuclear fuel from civilian nuclear power plants and highly radioactive waste from defense-related activities at DOE facilities. The project involved characterizing the proposed underground site, determining the effects on the site from storing high-temperature radioactive wastes, and selecting and characterizing corrosion-resistant materials for the waste storage containers that would be buried in underground tunnels. A tunnel-boring machine was used to excavate the main research tunnel with the short-side tunnel alcoves and niches being excavated by a roadheader. Many other types of equipment were used to drill boreholes and dig shafts, test pits, and trenches. Explosives were rarely used. Radioactive materials were not used in the study, and no radioactive materials were received at Yucca Mountain for storage.
Type of Facility
- Department of Energy
Covered by EEOICPA
- Part B and Part E
EEOICPA Covered Years
- 1987-Present
DOE
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