Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 12:35 in Earth & Climate

The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently included in the Research Highlights of Nature, shows that there may be erosion of the crest...

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