Editing Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (section)

=== EPA's rule ===
The EPA published in the U.S. Federal Register a final rule in 2009. The rule limits radiation doses from Yucca Mountain for up to 1,000,000 years after it closes. Within that regulatory time frame, the EPA has two dose standards that would apply based on the number of years from the time the facility is closed.

For the first 10,000 years, the EPA would retain the 2001 final rule's dose limit of 15 millirem per year. This is protection at the level of the most stringent radiation regulations in the U.S. today. From 10,000 to one million years, EPA established a dose limit of 100 millirem per year. EPA's rule requires DOE to show that Yucca Mountain can safely contain wastes, considering the effects of earthquakes, [[volcanic activity]], [[climate change]], and container [[corrosion]], over one million years. The current analysis indicates that the repository will cause less than 1 mrem/year public dose for 1,000,000 years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ialenti |first=Vincent |year=2014 |title=Adjudicating Deep Time: Revisiting the United States' High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Project at Yucca Mountain |volume=27 |url=https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/55323 |access-date=2023-08-07 |publisher=Science & Technology Studies |issue=2}}</ref>