mt. yucca

By smilehappy2
  • 2016 BCE

    SITING PROCESS EST.

    DOE announces its implementing a consent-based siting process to establish an integrated waste management system to move, store, and get rid of nuclear fuel and radioactive waste
  • 2012 BCE

    $$$ SET ASIDE

    house lawmakers support yucca mtn repository plan to advance a bill to set aside $35 mil to revive the waste site
  • 2010 BCE

    HEARINGS HALTED

    NRC judges halt Yucca license hearings/ Obama administration seeks final withdrawal of plan to build Nevada repository
  • 2006 BCE

    TARGET DATE

    DOE sets a new target date for the opening of Yucca Mtn. repository
  • 2004 BCE

    RADIATION STANDARD DISMISSED

    U.S. court of appeals throws out EPA's 10,000 year radiation standard for yucca
  • 2000 BCE

    VETO

    clinton vetoes nuclear waste legislation passed by congress again
  • 1999 BCE

    CLINTON VETOS

    bills emphasizing interim spent fuel storage at test site introduced to congress and clinton vows to veto them
  • 1997 BCE

    TESTING

    thermal testing begins at yucca/ scheduled to take 8 years
  • 1994 BCE

    PORTAL ENTRANCE CONSTRUCTED

    portal entrance to exploratory studies facility is constructed and tunneling into mountain begins
  • 1993 BCE

    PHASE 1

    formulation of a new program approach/ DOE sets site characterization that defers some work to a repository performance confirmation period after waste implacement begins/ DOE's development and distribution of multipurpose canisters to begin interim waste storage
  • 1991 BCE

    STUDIES BEGIN :)))))

    surface studies begin at site
  • 1988 BCE

    PLAN FOR MT. YUCCA

    DOE holds public hearings on their site characterization plan for yucca