Nuclear Waste Storage at Yucca Mountain

Science ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (5226) ◽  
pp. 906-907
Author(s):  
C. D. Bowman ◽  
F. Venneri
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Waste Storage

NNWSI Performance Assessment Considerations

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Tyler ◽  
R. R. Peters ◽  
N. K. Hayden ◽  
J. K. Johnstone ◽  
S. Sinnock
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Nuclear Waste Repository ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Waste Storage ◽  
A Site

ABSTRACTThe Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI) project includes a Performance Assessment task to evaluate the containment and isolation potential for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. This task includes calculations of the rates and concentrations at which radionuclides might be released and transported from the repository and will predict their consequences if they enter the human environment. Among the major tasks required for these calculations will be the development of models for water flow and nuclide transport under unsaturated conditions and in fractured hard rock. The program must also quantify the uncertainties associated with the results of the calculations. The performance assessment will provide evaluations needed for making major decisions as the U. S. Department of Energy seeks a site for a repository. An evaluation will be part of the environmental assessments prepared to accompany the potential nomination of the site. If the Yucca mountain site is selected for characterization and development as a repository, the assessments will be required for an environmental impact statement, a safety analysis report, and other documents.This program has been divided into five tasks. Collectively they will provide the performance assessments needed for the NNWSI Project.

scholarly journals Preliminary Geochemical/Geophysical Model of Yucca Mountain

1987 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail A. Cederberg ◽  
L. Eric Greenwade
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Unknown Parameter ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Flow And Transport ◽  
Geophysical Model ◽  
Waste Storage ◽  
Data Aquisition ◽  
Parameter Values

AbstractAs part of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI) Project, a comprehensive geochemical/geophysical model is being compiled. This model incorporates the current and relevant stratigraphic, petrologic, hydrogeologic, geochemical, and material data associated with a candidate repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In this report the known repository data are compiled and unknown parameter values are estimated based on the available data. More data are needed before the geochemical/geophysical model of Yucca Mountain can be regarded as satisfactory and a suitable base for multidimensional predictive flow and transport simulations. Recommendations for future studies concerning site characterization and data aquisition are presented.

Yucca Mountain pro and con [nuclear waste storage]

IEEE Spectrum ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Garrick ◽  
V. Gilinsky
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Waste Storage

scholarly journals (Hydroxy)apatite on cement: insights into a new surface treatment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Joseph Turner ◽  
Pieter Bots ◽  
Alan Richardson ◽  
Paul Bingham ◽  
Alex Scrimshire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Surface Treatment ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Coating Material ◽  
Hydroxy Apatite ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Waste Storage ◽  
Architectural Preservation

(Hydroxy)apatite [Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2], has emerging potential as a cement coating material, with applications in environmental remediation, nuclear waste storage and architectural preservation. In these low temperature environments and when precipitating from...

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