Part one of term paper
Yucca Mountain is the Department of Energy's (DOE) potential 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 this type of radioactive waste. It is located in Nye County, Nevada, about 100 miles north ...

Part two of term paper
... leak at the proposed nuclear waste dump is from water. Even if an earthquake crushed a canister filled with plutonium deep inside the ground, the lethal material probably wouldn't get far without the help of water. Opponents led by Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency Director, Bob Loux say the danger is twofold - rain water flowing into the repository from above, and water being pushed up from an aquifer 300 feet below by an earthquake. He says there is crystalline evidence in the rocks at the rep ...