Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain. Just a mountain you may think‚ but not just any mountain. A mountain that our Congressmen decided would be a great repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other radioactive waste. 196 billion dollars were spent towards this project. Back in 1987‚ this project was the ideal project to store radioactive waste. As the 1990’s and 2000’s crept in‚ Nevada’s residents were against this idea big time. Funding for the Yucca Mountain Repository was
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At the Mountains of Madness 1 At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft I I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts‚ as I must reveal them
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Mini-Literature Review The Ox Mountain range is in County Sligo. ‘’The Ox Mountains lie along Sligo’s border with Co. Mayo’’(Libraries 2010). A strip of ancient rocks - gneiss‚ schist and granite - form the bedrock of the Ox Mountains’’(Geological 2016). The uplands of the Ox Mountains are wild and mainly covered by blanket bog. Some parts of the Ox Mountains are heavily forested. To the north and south of the Ox Mountains is farmland that is mainly underlain by Carboniferous Limestone and Sandstone
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Brokeback Mountain was a much talked about movie due to its theme. Some labelled the movie as a ‘gay cowboy movie’‚ which does not do the movie justice. Yes‚ the movie is about two cowboys who fall in love with each other but to categorize it as just a ‘gay cowboy movie’ simplifies a love story of a group of people that have often been denied of real representation in the media‚ especially the mainstream media. The movie opens in 1963 in Wyoming when two young cowboys are looking for work as
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------------------------------------------------- Andes This article is about the mountain range in South America. For other uses‚ see Andes (disambiguation). The Andes are the world’s longest continental mountain range. It is a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7‚000 km (4‚300 mi) long‚ 200 km (120 mi) to 700 km (430 mi) wide (widest between 18° to 20°S latitude)‚ and of an average height of about 4‚000 m (13‚000 ft). Over its length the
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Mountain Bikes It has been a decade in the making‚ but the mountain bike has become a passion for many people. Along with this passion it has also become the most environmental way to get from point A to B. It has gone through a very intense evolution process over the past decade. It all started with some guys from California who took their bikes out for a ride on their day off‚ they modified their bikes and turned a hobby of theirs into a worldwide phenomenon. The mountain bike’s rapid increase
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Vail Resorts Sustainability Analysis [pic] Business 4630: Creating Sustainable Enterprises May XX‚ 2009 BY: Contents Introduction 1 Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development 1 Opportunity and Risk 2 Measureing Value 2 Strategy and Execution 2 Measuring Results 2 Conclusion 2 Introduction This paper aims to evaluate the sustainability of Vail Resorts™ (Vail) and its role as a socially responsible corporation. The paper will … Social Responsibility
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The Shining Mountain summary The Shining Mountain is about a young girl called Pangma-La and her father who is a famous mountain-climber. Because he is famous he expects quite a lot from his daughter. In school Pangma-La is picked on because of her extraordinary name but her father tells her to be proud of being named after a shining mountain. Pangma-La and her father decide to climb the shining mountain so Pangma-La begins her training. After training the skills she needs for a long time Pangma-La
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Misty Sprout 5/3/2013 Smoky Mountains Most of the Smoky Mountains in the national park are sedimentary and were formed by accumulations of clay‚ silt‚ sand‚ gravel minor amount of calcium carbonate. The oldest of the sedimentary rock were formed during the Proterozoic Era about 800-545 million years ago. About 310-245 million years ago‚ the eastern edge of the North American tectonic plat collided with the African plate becoming part of a supercontinent. During one of earlier collisions‚ tremendous
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Novotel Pacific Bay Resort An economic enterprise operating at a local scale Location Pacific Bay Resort is located on Charlesworth Bay‚ three kilometres north of Coffs Harbour on the north coast of NSW. It is located on the Pacific Highway and is about 7 hours from Sydney and 5 hours from Brisbane by car. It is about one and quarter hours by plane from Sydney. There are many features that attract tourists to the region. Coffs Harbour is an established tourist centre in NSW‚ with the CSIRO
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