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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports that "After much political tugging and pulling, Congress directed in 1987 that the list of possible (nuclear waste disposal) sites be narrowed to one. Yucca Mountain, located on the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, would be the only location evaluated for the repository. To date, the United States has spent more than $3 billion studying - or "characterizing" - the proposed Yucca Mountain site. If scientists eventually find it acceptable, and if it survives the legal and political battle that would follow its selection, sometime early in the next century the United States would become the first country to begin permanent geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel from nuclear reactors."

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