1.) Currently, most spent nuclear fuel is safely stored in specially designed pools at individual reactor sites around the country, if pool capacity is reached, licensees may move toward use of above-ground dry storage casks, about 20 reactors at 16 commercial nuclear sites will need additional storage space by 2010, and at least 22 more reactors will need additional storage by the end of 2015.
2.) Yucca Mountain was officially designated as the site to store the nation's spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste in 2002, it is located in Nye county, Nevada, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas on federally-owned land on the edge of the Nevada Test Site, Yucca Mountain is comprised of "tuff," a rock made from compacted volcanic ash formed more than 13 million years ago.
3) I think the Yucca Mountain storage facility is very interesting, yet impractical. If I was a resident of the surrounding areas, I'd feel annoyed and bothered that they'd put the waste storage facility so close to where I was living. I'd also feel a bit unsafe.