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Yucca Mountain.jpg is from http://www.ymp.gov/ and assumed to be in the public domain
Other images The following images are by Daniel Mayer and were taken on 2002-03-25. © 2002, released under terms of the GNU FDL.
- Picture of a tour group entering the North Portal of Yucca Mountain. This is also the place where excavation by a TBM[?] began that dug the main tunnel.
- Picture of the South Portal entrance to Yucca Mountain. The large device to the left is the TBM[?] that excavated the main tunnel which is called the Exploratory Studies Facility. The tunnel is 5 miles long and is U-shaped. The waste repository will be 1000 feet below the surface of the mountain and 1000 feet above the water table.
- Picture of the TBM[?] that dug the 5 mile long U-shaped tunnel at Yucca Mountain. The device sits at its exit point from the mountain at the South Portal.
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