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The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [ 2] is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in ...
The Utah Data Center ( UDC ), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, [ 1] is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. [ 2] Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive ...
The Sims 4: City Living is the third expansion pack, released in North America on November 1, 2016, and Europe on November 3, 2016. It includes three new careers: Politician, Social Media, and Critic. The pack also features a new world called San Myshuno where new venues (penthouses, art centre, central park, karaoke bar and apartments) are ...
Water pollution was identified as a growing problem in the US by scientists, government officials and the public in the 19th century. Many cities and towns piped their untreated domestic sewage into nearby waterways. Wastewater discharged by factories, mines and other businesses increased as the economy expanded.
The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat is the first game pack for The Sims 4, released on January 13, 2015. Outdoor Retreat focuses on outdoor camping, similar to a vacation in Three Lakes in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, [12] [13] and that in the forest lots on Vacation Island featured in The Sims: Vacation. It includes a new destination, many new objects, new ...
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
v. t. e. Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides . It was used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, [ 1 ] during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. [ 2 ] It is a mixture of equal parts of two herbicides, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D.
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of ...