Social Justice/Politics
The Nevada mountain proposed for a nuclear storage site
What is Yucca Mountain?
What does the NPT stand for?
What is Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
The types of storage for nuclear waste
What is wet or dry storage?
This is the sickness caused by long-term radiation exposure
What is cancer?
The status of Yucca Mountain's nuclear storage program
What is stalled?
During this era, commercial use of nuclear energy began to expand rapidly
What is the 1960-70s
Waste is locked in containers, sealed in underground facilities
What is nuclear waste disposal?
Highly radioactive nuclear waste can stay radioactive for this many years
What is thousands of years?
The amount of money Congress invested in the Yucca Mountain storage site?
What is $15 billion?
The most reliable option for nuclear storage
What is geology-based storage?
Recovering usable uranium and plutonium to use again
What is nuclear waste recycling?
The natural ways people are exposed to radiation
Space and the Earth's crust
Native Americans' reasons for resisting the Yucca Mountain storage site
What is potential radiation exposure, and environmental concerns
What is the name of the project that begun in 1942 that developed the first nuclear weapons?
What is the Manhattan Project
The two ways to manage nuclear storage
What is disposal and recycling?
This American nuclear incident still sparks debate over the health effects it caused
What is the Three Mile Island
These are the reasons the Yucca Mountain site was never completed
What are political/state resistance and unresolved safety concerns
What is the name of the scientific director of the Manhattan project?
What is Robert Oppenheimer
This is the permanent storage solution for getting rid of nuclear waste
There is none
This percentage is the total amount of nuclear waste produced that is highly radioactive
What is 3%?