Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California. It is approximately northwest of Las Vegas. Yucca Mountain is in the Great Basin. The mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. As of 2021, laws have identified thid site as the place where spent nuclear waste is to be stored. Because of politics, the funding of the site was cut in 2010. 