In 1982, the federal government selected Yucca Mountain, on secure federal land in Nevada, as the geological storage location for America's high-level nuclear waste. Over two decades and $14 billion later, Senate Majority Leader Reid and his allies in the Administration and at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission want to shut down this important taxpayer investment. Learn more about why it's important we secure our high-level nuclear waste in a desert, under a mountain, far from our water supplies.