{
  "id": "yucca-mountain",
  "slug": "yucca-mountain",
  "name": "Yucca Mountain",
  "stage": "repository",
  "company_id": null,
  "country_iso3": "USA",
  "lat": 36.85,
  "lon": -116.43,
  "capacity_value": 70000,
  "capacity_unit": "tHM total",
  "capacity_year": 2008,
  "capacity_note": "Statutory limit set by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Never used.",
  "output_value": null,
  "output_unit": null,
  "output_tu": null,
  "output_year": null,
  "status": "closed",
  "commissioned": null,
  "notes": "Two decades of work and billions of dollars, and no waste was ever emplaced. Congress designated the site in 1987, the licence application went to the NRC in 2008, and funding was withdrawn in 2010. The United States has the largest spent fuel inventory in the world and no disposal route for it; the fuel sits in dry casks at reactor sites, and the federal government pays damages to utilities for failing to take it.\n",
  "source_name": "World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste",
  "source_url": "https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste",
  "source_ref": null,
  "company_name": null,
  "company_slug": null,
  "url": "https://nuclearchain.net/facilities/yucca-mountain/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "NuclearChain (nuclearchain.net)"
}