Effects of Perched Water on Thermally Driven Moisture Flow at the Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository for High-Level Waste

1999 ◽  
Vol 125 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodluck I. Ofoegbu ◽  
Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou ◽  
Ronald T. Green ◽  
Michael A. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Moisture Flow ◽  
Perched Water ◽  
Thermally Driven ◽  
High Level

scholarly journals Development of Integrated Mechanistically-Based Degradation-Mode Models for Performance Assessment of High-Level Waste Containers

1999 ◽  
Vol 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Farmer ◽  
R. D. Mccright ◽  
J. C. Estill ◽  
S. R. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Crevice Corrosion ◽  
Chloride Concentration ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
304 Stainless Steel ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Mechanistic Models ◽  
Alloy 22 ◽  
High Level ◽  
Impurity Elements

AbstractAlloy 22 [UNS N06022] is now being considered for construction of high level waste containers to be emplaced at Yucca Mountain and elsewhere. In essence, this alloy is 20.0–22.5% Cr, 12.5–14.5% Mo, 2.0–6.0% Fe, 2.5–3.5% W, with the balance being Ni. Other impurity elements include P, Si, S, Mn, Co and V. Cobalt may be present at a maximum concentration of 2.5%. Detailed mechanistic models have been developed to account for the corrosion of Alloy 22 surfaces in crevices that will inevitably form. Such occluded areas experience substantial decreases in pH, with corresponding elevations in chloride concentration. Experimental work has been undertaken to validate the crevice corrosion model, including parallel studies with 304 stainless steel.

Evolution of Chemistry and Its Effects on the Corrosion of Engineered Barrier Materials

2006 ◽  
Vol 985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell Dunn ◽  
Yi-Ming Pan ◽  
Xihua He ◽  
Lietai Yang ◽  
Roberto Pabalan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Seepage Water ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
Barrier Materials ◽  
Engineered Barrier ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTThe evolution of environmental conditions within the emplacement drifts of a potential high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, may be influenced by several factors, including the temperature and relative humidity within the emplacement drifts and the composition of seepage water. The performance of the waste package and the drip shield may be affected by the evolution of the environmental conditions within the emplacement drifts. In this study, tests evaluated the evolution of environmental conditions on the waste package surfaces and in the surrounding host rock. The tests were designed to (i) simulate the conditions expected within the emplacement drifts; (ii) measure the changes in near-field chemistry; and (iii) determine environmental influence on the performance of the engineered barrier materials. Results of tests conducted in this study indicate the composition of salt deposits was consistent with the initial dilute water chemistry. Salts and possibly concentrated calcium chloride brines may be more aggressive than either neutral or alkaline brines.

scholarly journals Near-Field Thermal-Hydrological Behavior for Alternative Repository Designs at Yucca Mountain

1996 ◽  
Vol 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Buscheck ◽  
John J. Nitao ◽  
Lawrence D. Ramspott
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Point Load ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Line Load ◽  
Large Variability ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTThree-dimensional calculations that explicitly represent a realistic mixture of waste packages (WPs) are used to analyze decay-heat-driven thermal-hydrological behavior around emplacement drifts in a potential high-level waste facility at Yucca Mountain. Calculations, using the NUFT code, compare two fundamentally different ways that WPs can be arranged in the repository, with a focus on temperature, relative humidity, and liquid-phase flux on WPs. These quantities strongly affect WP integrity and the mobilization and release of radionuclides from WPs. Point-load spacing, which places the WPs roughly equidistant from each other, thermally isolates WPs from each other, causing large variability in temperature, relative humidity, and liquid-phase flux along the drifts. Line-load spacing, which places WPs nearly end to end in widely spaced drifts, results in more locally intensive and uniform heating along the drifts, causing hotter, drier, and more uniform conditions. A larger and more persistent reduction in relative humidity on WPs occurs if the drifts are backfilled with a low-thermal-conductivity granular material with hydrologie properties that minimize moisture wicking.

scholarly journals Parametric Effects of Glass Reaction Under Unsaturated Conditions

1989 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Bates ◽  
Thomas J. Gerding ◽  
Alan B. Woodland
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Test Method ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
304L Stainless Steel ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
Mountain Site ◽  
Parametric Effects ◽  
Degree Of Sensitization ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTEventual liquid water contact of high-level waste glass stored under the unsaturated conditions anticipated at the Yucca Mountain site will be by slow intrusion of water into a breached container/canister assembly. The water flow patterns under these unsaturated conditions will vary, and the Unsaturated Test method has been developed by the YMP to study glass reaction. The results from seven different sets of tests done to investigate the effect of systematically varying parameters such as composition and degree of sensitization of 304L stainless steel, water input volume, and the interval of water contact are discussed. Glass reaction has been monitored over a period of five years, and the parametric effects can result in up to a ten-fold variance in the degree of glass reaction.

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