Spotlight
Links to Web Sites with High-Level Waste Information
See the Licensing Support Network (LSN) Library for discovery materials associated with the currently-suspended adjudicatory proceeding regarding construction authorization for the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level waste repository.
The following non-NRC Web sites also contain information related to high level waste disposal:
- Federal Agencies
- Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
- Affected Units of Local Government (AULG)
- Indian Tribes with "Affected" Status
- Other Entities and Useful Tools
Federal Agencies
- Department of Energy (DOE) Web site for Yucca Mountain Project
- Environmental Protection Agency Yucca Mountain Page
- Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
- Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses - The Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses was established in 1987 as a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resolve technical and regulatory issues related to a geologic repository for high- level nuclear waste
Affected Units of Local Government (AULG)
- Clark County (Las Vegas) Nuclear Waste Division
- Churchill County Nevada Nuclear Waste Oversight
- Esmeralda County Nevada Repository Oversight Program
- Eureka County Nevada - Nuclear Waste Page
- Inyo County California Yucca Mountain Repository Assessment Office
- Mineral County Nevada Yucca Mountain Oversight Program
- Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Project Office
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County, Nevada
Indian Tribes with "Affected" Status
Other Entities and Useful Tools
- Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Waste Disposal
- Yucca Mountain Interactive Maps - Interactive topographic, geological and geophysical maps, satellite images, and information on wells, borings and springs in the Yucca Mountain region
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, May 06, 2025
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, May 06, 2025