# Yucca Mountain and the Deep-Time Person **Domain:** Deep Time / Nuclear Law / Case Study **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A regulatory precedent + scholarship ## Definition **Yucca Mountain and the Deep-Time Person** is the case study of U.S. nuclear-waste regulation forcing present institutions to model legal duties toward hypothetical persons across a million-year horizon. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It is one of the strongest existing precedents for deep-time constitutional imagination. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence EPA rules require million-year performance assessment. Vincent Ialenti's scholarship analyzes how the regime reinvented conventional figures of legal personhood and adjudication for extreme temporal horizons. ## Evidentiary Boundary The analogy concerns future beneficiaries and duty durability, not digital personhood. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Reasonably Maximally Exposed Individual|Reasonably Maximally Exposed Individual]] · [[wiki/Million-Year Regulatory Person|Million-Year Regulatory Person]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Legal Architecture|Deep-Time Legal Architecture]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Stewardship|Deep-Time Stewardship]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://www.epa.gov/radiation/public-health-and-environmental-radiation-protection-standards-yucca-mountain-nevada-40 - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457896 <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->