mt. yucca

SITING PROCESS EST.

2016 BCE

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

$$$ SET ASIDE

2012 BCE

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

HEARINGS HALTED

2010 BCE

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

TARGET DATE

2006 BCE

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

RADIATION STANDARD DISMISSED

2004 BCE

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

VETO

2000 BCE

clinton vetoes nuclear waste legislation passed by congress again

CLINTON VETOS

1999 BCE

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

TESTING

1997 BCE

thermal testing begins at yucca/ scheduled to take 8 years

PORTAL ENTRANCE CONSTRUCTED

1994 BCE

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

PHASE 1

1993 BCE

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

STUDIES BEGIN :)))))

1991 BCE

surface studies begin at site

PLAN FOR MT. YUCCA

1988 BCE

DOE holds public hearings on their site characterization plan for yucca