External Publications

State of Nevada

Agency For Nuclear Projects

Key Technical Issues
Socioeconomics and Health Effects
State of Nevada Comments: EIS Documents
State of Nevada Comments: Federal Agency Planning Documents
State of Nevada - List of Documentst

Nevada Attorney General

Yucca Mountain

Department of Energy - Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

In August 2010 the NRC staff completed its safety evaluation of repository performance (Volume 1: General Information)

Additional Yucca Mountain Documents Made Available on NRC’s Licensing Support Network to Facilitate Yucca Mountain Licensing Proceeding [pdf]

Studies being contacted by Lawrence Livermore Lab

LLNL's Yucca Mountain Program (YMP) team is primarily working in the following areas:

The Large Block Test (LBT), used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used a series of tests conducted on a heavily instrumented, room-size block of rock adjacent to the proposed Yucca Mountain site. These tests were to enhance understanding of how thermal loading will affect the coupled thermal-mechanical-hydrological-chemical (TMHC) processes in the near-field environment (NFE).

Environmental Protection Agency:

The National Environmental Policy Act

Below are answers to many questions commonly asked about the repository and EPA's Role: the following are links at the EPA's web site - to return here use your browser's back arrow.

Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Pre-licensing activity - Pre-licensing interactions with the DOE are open to participation by the State of Nevada, Indian tribes, and local governments. During the pre-licensing phase, NRC's has four primary responsibilities:

Review of the Department of Energy's (DOE) site characterization process Exploratory Studies Facility and the Cross Drift (PDF)

Site Recommendation Process

Review of DOE's Environmental Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain

High-Level Waste Disposal Regulations, Guidance, and Communications

NRC guidance documents

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended (NWPA)

List and Status of Key Technical Issues for High-Level Waste The NRC has reviewed the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The NRC has provided comments to DOE on their EIS.

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