Yucca Mountain is a suitable location for the federal radioactive waste repository due to its sparsely populated Federal land, low water table, long paths to clearly marked discharge points.
higher electron absorption potential (including the presence of mesoporous minerals), low rainfall, and low infiltration rates. The Yucca Mountain site is a bad choice due to host rock fractures that could concentrate infiltration and groundwater movement, potential hazards from earthquakes and volcanic activity in the future, habitat destruction (especially for the endangered wilderness tortoise), thermo-mechanical effects (like the boiling zone), and local opposition. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository is a planned deep geological repository storage unit within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactivity in the United States, as authorized by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987.
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