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Inside Yucca Mountain
Photo courtesy 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'

The beleagured high-level waste dump in the US is a disaster - desperate to find a final 'repository' for their waste, the US Department of Energy is pushing ahead with Yucca Mountain in Nevada despite troubling evidence coming from it's own engineering surveys. Yucca Mountain, if it is ever built, will be a source of massive contamination to the surroundings: it is sited in an earthquake zone amid a number of nearby volcanos.


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