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A good site for storage of radioactive wastes must be dry and safe from disruption for hundreds of thousands of years. Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert is physically an excellent site, since radioactive wastes could be stored there in dry bedrock, far from surface water and more than 300 meters above any water beneath it.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion stated above?
A. Water that came into contact with radioactive wastes could give rise to violent steam explosions that would spread the wastes over a wide area.
B. Yucca Mountain, a remote ridge near Death Valley, is located in one of the most arid and uninhabitable regions in all of North America.
C. Storage areas planned for construction under Yucca Mountain could host most of the waste generated by the world's nuclear reactors before 1990.
D. Strong political opposition to the use of Yucca Mountain as a storage site for radioactive wastes has developed in the state legislature of Nevada.
E. Yucca Mountain lies in a danger zone for earthquakes, and an earthquake could dramatically raise the level of the water beneath the mountain.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the conclusion stated above?
A. Water that came into contact with radioactive wastes could give rise to violent steam explosions that would spread the wastes over a wide area.
B. Yucca Mountain, a remote ridge near Death Valley, is located in one of the most arid and uninhabitable regions in all of North America.
C. Storage areas planned for construction under Yucca Mountain could host most of the waste generated by the world's nuclear reactors before 1990.
D. Strong political opposition to the use of Yucca Mountain as a storage site for radioactive wastes has developed in the state legislature of Nevada.
E. Yucca Mountain lies in a danger zone for earthquakes, and an earthquake could dramatically raise the level of the water beneath the mountain.
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Conclusion: Yucca is a good location for storing radioactive waste.
Premise(s): Far from surface and below-ground water. Good storage site must be dry and safe from disruptions for a lonnnnng time.
A. Water that came into contact with radioactive wastes could give rise to violent steam explosions that would spread the wastes over a wide area.
Good thing we'd be well clear of surface and below-ground water. Doesn't weaken. Eliminate.
B. Yucca Mountain, a remote ridge near Death Valley, is located in one of the most arid and uninhabitable regions in all of North America.
We want somewhere arid and safe from disruptions. Doesn't weaken. Eliminate.
C. Storage areas planned for construction under Yucca Mountain could host most of the waste generated by the world's nuclear reactors before 1990.
Okay. Doesn't weaken. Eliminate.
D. Strong political opposition to the use of Yucca Mountain as a storage site for radioactive wastes has developed in the state legislature of Nevada.
Political opposition answer choices are rarely correct, as they tend to be out of scope. Politics don't always follow logic......... Eliminate.
E. Yucca Mountain lies in a danger zone for earthquakes, and an earthquake could dramatically raise the level of the water beneath the mountain.
Oh, well that wouldn't exactly fulfill our requirement to be safe from disruptions and dry!
Answer choice E.
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