Yucca Mountain

|colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;"|Yucca Mountain|
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|colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding: 0.3em 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;"|<div class="infobox-caption" style="padding: 0.2em 0em;">Yucca Mountain</div>|
|class="infobox-data"|6,707 ft (2,044 m)<small> NAVD 88</small>|
|class="infobox-data"|1,333 ft (406 m)|
|class="infobox-data"|<templatestyles src="Module:Coordinates/styles.css"></templatestyles><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion">[//geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Yucca_Mountain¶ms=36.940210656_N_116.485006506_W_type:mountain_region:US-NV_scale:100000_source:NGS <span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°56′25″N</span> <span class="longitude">116°29′06″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">﻿ / ﻿</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.940210656°N 116.485006506°W</span><span style="display:none">﻿ / <span class="geo">36.940210656; -116.485006506</span></span></span>]</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="coordinates">Coordinates: <templatestyles src="Module:Coordinates/styles.css"></templatestyles><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion">[//geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Yucca_Mountain¶ms=36.940210656_N_116.485006506_W_type:mountain_region:US-NV_scale:100000_source:NGS <span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°56′25″N</span> <span class="longitude">116°29′06″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct">﻿ / ﻿</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.940210656°N 116.485006506°W</span><span style="display:none">﻿ / <span class="geo">36.940210656; -116.485006506</span></span></span>]</span></span></span>|
|colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"|<div style="padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em;"><templatestyles src="Module:Location map/styles.css"></templatestyles><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:160px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:160px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:160px"><div class="od" style="top:72.052%;left:58.306%"><div class="pr" style="font-size:91%;width:6em;left:9px"><div>Yucca Mountain</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Nye County, Nevada, U.S.</div></div></div></div> </div>|
|class="infobox-data"|USGS Topopah Spring|
|class="infobox-data"|Caldera, cinder cones|
|class="infobox-data"|80,000 years ago|
**Yucca Mountain** is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California. It is approximately  northwest of Las Vegas. Yucca Mountain is in the Great Basin. The mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. As of 2021, laws have identified this site as the place where spent nuclear waste is to be stored. Because of politics, the funding of the site was cut in 2010.

## Geology

Several large eruptions from a caldera volcano created Yucca Mountain. The mountain is composed of changing layers of different kinds of rock.  The volcanic units have been tilted along fault lines. They formed the current ridge line called Yucca Mountain.  In addition to these faults, Yucca Mountain is criss-crossed by fractures, many of which formed when the volcanic units cooled.

## Cultural history

Yucca Mountain and surrounding lands were central in the lives of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute peoples, who shared them for religious ceremonies, resource uses, and social events; Yucca Mountain is still considered sacred by the Shoshone people living today.

## Other websites

- GNIS - Feature Detail Report for Yucca Mountain