Yucca Mountain in the state of Nevada is
A)the location of a leaky nuclear power plant that will cost billions of dollars to clean up.
B)the only potential site for long-term commercial nuclear waste storage in the United States,rejected for safety concerns in 2009.
C)a military base that has accumulated low-level and high-level nuclear waste for many decades.
D)the site of a lake that received illegal dumping of nuclear waste in the 1960s.

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Yucca Mountain was designated as the sole site for long-term commercial nuclear waste storage in the United States in 1987. However, safety concerns led to its rejection in 2009. It was never a nuclear power plant or military base, and there is no evidence of illegal dumping of nuclear waste.

Yucca Mountain in the State of Nevada Is