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The Repository: Proposed Nuclear Waste Repsitory At Yucca Mountain
"The Repository" is an independent journalistic documentary about the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The goal of this documentary is to tell the history of Yucca Mountain and explain the conflicting views on the proposed repository.
In 1987, the U.S. Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act designating Yucca Mountain in Nevada's desert as the nation's sole repository for nuclear waste storage. Officials in Nye County, the host of the proposed nuclear waste repository, support the project but the majority of Nevada's officials, residents and members of the state's delegation oppose storage of nuclear waste at Yucca
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