It's just a lonely ridge of rock in the Nevada desert, but it is generating more controversy than an indicted CEO. The reason, of course, is that that's where the U.S. Department of Energy wants to build the world's first permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste.
In a pair of articles in the October issue of IEEE Spectrum, two veteran nuclear industry professionals square off and present opposing views of the wisdom of burying waste at Yucca Mountain.
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