Yucca Mountain lies approximately 80 miles northwest of the Las Vegas, Nevada. This mountain was the proposed site for long term storage of nuclear waste in the United States. US Infrastructure has published an infographic about Yucca Mountain.
Earlier in the year, plans to store America’s nuclear waste inside one of America’s most challenging engineering feats, Yucca Mountain, were scrapped due to a lack of federal funding.
The Yucca Mountain project, located in Nevada near the nuclear test sites, had been underway since 1987, when Congress had selected the site as America’s nuclear waste repository. To ensure the waste was safely stored, over $9 billion was spent on concrete tunnels and chambers designed to keep waste safe for at least a million years.
via : Yucca Mountain: Storing America’s nuclear waste
Click for full resolution.
@Kevin Hahaha, nice find! I didn’t even notice!
You forgot to removed the faux-latin from the top of the full image. Lorem ipsum!
It is misleading to say that $9 billion was spent by the Dept. of Energy on tunnels and chambers designed to keep the waste safe. The $9 billion was spent on site characterization and the studies needed to convince the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the site would work. The site is not built; the next step would be to get a license to construct from NRC. If the NRC OK’d the license, then DOE would build the tunnels and chambers, which would need titanium drip shields in order to make sure that the canisters didn’t corrode and release the radionuclides into the environment and water table.