Definition of "Yucca"

Add this issue tot the myriad of other problems at Yucca Mountain: its active seismicity, including last year's revelation in Science that the earth's crust at Yucca is less stable than scientists previously had believed […]

1999, Frank Murkowski, Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, DIANE Publishing, page 55

“Maybe the mantle under Yucca is so damn hot that it behaves more like pudding or putty than solid brittle rock.” “Yeah. Ain't hindsight great,” Barney said. They sighed as Hank rolled up the earthquake maps […]

2007 04, Wendell Duffield, Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb, iUniverse

Furthermore the region around Yucca is extremely arid—the Nevada Desert is one of the driest places in the United States. The average precipitation at Yucca Mountain is 1.5 centimetres a year.

2022, Harry E Gove, From Hiroshima to the Iceman, page 141