Yucca Mountain Is Best Known as ________

question 3

Multiple Choice

Yucca Mountain is best known as ________.

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

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