The central theme of uncertainty underground yucca mountain and the nations high level waste is the technical issues and related uncertainties underlying evaluation of yucca mountain as an underground repository with a subtheme of potential problems in performance assessment of the repository resulting from these uncertainties. Uncertainty underground yucca mountain and the nations high level nuclear waste author allison macfarlane despite approval by congress and the bush administration and over seven billion dollars already spent the yucca mountain nevada site for disposal of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is not yet in operation the reasons for the delay lie not only in citizen and activist . Uncertainty underground yucca mountain and the nations high level nuclear waste allison macfarlane july 7 2006 sts program mit uncertainty underground o purpose of book rectify lack of geologic input into nuclear waste policy decision making shed light on uncertainties in technical issues at yucca mt o chapter authors wide variety of views wide variety of . Uncertainty underground yucca mountain and the nations high level nuclear waste macfarlane a and ewing rc 2006 book review abstract this book examines the plans by the us department of energy to store nuclear waste at yucca mountain in the nevada desert published in ieee technology and society magazine volume 29 issue 3 fall 2010 article pages 10 12 date of . Uncertainty underground yucca mountain and the nations high level nuclear waste dec 28 2020 posted by frederic dard public library text id c798347a online pdf ebook epub library appointments in the department of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences and the department of materials science and engineering and emeritus regents professor at