Editing Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (section)

=== Nevada routes ===
[[File:Caliente Corridor.jpg|thumb|upright=3|The proposed transportation route of spent nuclear fuel through Nevada]]

Within Nevada, the planned primary mode of transportation was via rail through the Caliente Corridor. This corridor starts in [[Caliente, Nevada|Caliente]], Nevada, traveling along the northern and western borders of the Nevada Test Site for approximately {{convert|200|mi}}. It then turns south.<ref>{{cite web
 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070216221527/http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/transport/eis.shtml |archive-date=February 16, 2007
 | title= Environmental Impact Statement for the Alignment of a Rail Line in the Caliente Corridor
 | publisher= OCRWM, DoE
 | access-date= May 16, 2008 | url= http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/transport/eis.shtml}}</ref>

Other options that were being considered included a rail route along the Mina corridor. This rail route would have originated at the Fort Churchill Siding rail line, near [[Wabuska, Nevada|Wabuska]]. The proposed corridor would have proceeded southeast through [[Hawthorne, Nevada|Hawthorne]], [[Nevada State Route 265|Blair Junction]], Lida Junction and Oasis Valley. At Oasis Valley, the rail line would have turned north-northeast towards Yucca Mountain. Use of this rail corridor by the DOE would have required permission from the Walker River Paiute Tribe in order to cross their land. As the first {{convert|54|mi}} of the proposed corridor was owned by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), additional permission from the DoD would have to be granted.<ref>MinaFeasabilityStudyRev01_26OCT06_alt1.pdf.</ref>

The Nevada Center for Biological Diversity and the Nevada Attorney General have expressed concern about the transportation routes, "through any number of sensitive habitats."<ref name=usa />