From our archives: Crunch time for Yucca

With a thunderous rumble that toppled tons of rock, miners using a monstrous machine Friday punched through a hill at the foot of Yucca Mountain, completing a five-mile tunnel that will tell if the mountain is safe for storing the nation’s high-level nuclear waste.

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