If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just a squat bulge in the middle of the desert, essentially just debris from a bigger, stronger mountain that erupted millions of years ago and hurled its broken pieces into piles across the earth.
We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste... if we're ever to recoup that investment in the future... then we're going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.
Research and development activities to support Yucca are permitted. This will ensure that we keep Congress in the driver's seat for nuclear waste policy.
The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.
No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.
Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.