Pros And Cons Of Yucca Mountain

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Period-7 Pros: If the Yucca Mountain is used as a nuclear waste depository then it will help store the large amount of nuclear waste that has been piling up in the nuclear power plants for many years. This build-up of nuclear waste poses a hazard to the areas that surround the power plants (such as New York City). The Yucca Mountain Depository resides is in a sparsely populated area and lies over 100 miles from the nearest city. Also the government already owns the land so it would be a waste if they did not use it for anything. The government has spent 10 billion dollars on the Yucca Mountain project already so it would be a waste to not use it, don’t we want our tax dollars to be well spent? We should use Yucca Mountain to dispose of our nuclear waste. If we do not dispose of the waste soon then perhaps, a leak could occur in a nuclear waste container and it would do damage to our country. We would not want that. With the design of the steel barriers that would contain the repository, which is similar to a big steel box, the site would be good for thousands of years to come. The site is also located in a large basin which, if any of the nuclear…show more content…
One of the biggest reasons to not use Yucca Mountain is because Nevada does not have one nuclear power plant. “A two-thirds majority of Nevadans feel it is unfair for their state to have to store nuclear waste when there are no nuclear power plants in Nevada”. So why would we make them take waste from states such as New York or New Jersey. Another reason that we should not use Yucca Mountain is because it is only 100 miles away from Las Vegas which has hundreds of thousands of tourist a year which if a leak occurs then they would be exposed to nuclear waste. This would not be good. It is also not clear how the waste will even get there so there is not point of even making a repository if we are not even going to transport the waste
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