Yucca Mountain is best known as ________

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


C

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