# Yucca Mountain

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 36.940211, -116.485007
- **Topo:** USGS Topopah Spring
- **Type:** Caldera, cinder cones
- **Location:** Nye County, Nevada, U.S.
- **Map Size:** 160
- **Elevation Ft:** 6707
- **Last Eruption:** 80,000 years ago
- **Prominence Ft:** 1333

Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca 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, which is currently identified by US federal law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.

![Photo of Yucca Mountain](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Yucca_Mountain_2.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)