NSC is working to promote public awareness and understanding of Yucca Mountain, site of the U.S. Department of Energy's proposed geological repository designed to accept spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. If approved, the site would be the nation's first geological repository for permanent disposal of these types of radioactive waste. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

• A Reporter's Guide to Yucca Mountain
  NSC's A Reporter's Guide to Yucca Mountain (published in January 2001) is available in a pdf format.
  It is also available in individual chapter pdf files:
  • Preface
  • Yucca Mountain - A Potential Geologic Repository
  • Radiation
  • Public Participation and Federal Agency Decisions Related to Yucca Mountain
  • Transporting Waste and Post-Closure Oversight of Yucca Mountain
  • Story Ideas for Articles on the Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain
  • Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
  • Appendix A: Expert Contacts for Yucca Mountain
  • Appendix B: Other Resources
• Yucca Mountain: Frequently Asked Questions
  EHC's Yucca Mountain: Frequently Asked Questions, published in October 1999, contains basic information regarding radiation safety and covers topics ranging from kinds of radioactive waste to transporting radioactive waste.
• Yucca Mountain: Roles of Federal Agencies
  NSC's Roles of Federal Agencies describes the Agencies and their responsibilities concerning Yucca Mountain (published in October 1999).

These documents were published under a grant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. If you have any questions about Yucca Mountain, please submit your inquiry to ehc@nsc.org.

For more information about the Environmental Protection Agency's final site-specific environmental radiation protection standards, visit EPA's Web site at http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/yucca/index.aspx.