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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Yucca Mountain"”.
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Housing location decision under environmental risk: The effects of the Yucca Mountain waste repository
Yucca Mountain is the site of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The risks to health and safety of transporting and storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain may induce the residents of Nevada to move. When offered compensation, residents will weigh potential negative effects …
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Dust control measures for tunnel boring operations at the Yucca Mountain Exploratory Study Facility
Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-96).
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Classification of upland soils by geomorphic and physical properties affecting infiltration at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Includes bibliographical references.
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The relationship of the Yucca Mountain repository block to the regional groundwater system: A geochemical model
Yucca Mountain, in southern Nevada, is being studied by the Department of Energy and the State of Nevada as the site of high-level nuclear waste repository. Geochemical and isotopic modeling were used in this thesis to define the relationship of the volcanic tuff aquifers and aquitards to the …
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Post-Closure Silica Transport in the Proposed High Level Radioactive Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
… and from nuclear weapons manufacturing in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Yucca Mountain, located about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, consists of horizontally bedded tuff deposits. Although the region is very arid, enough water exists in the tuffs to create a vapor dominated geothermal system as …
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The Development and Application of Reactive Transport Modeling Techniques to Study Radionuclide Migration at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Yucca Mountain, Nevada has been chosen as a possible site for the first high level radioactive waste repository in the United States. As part of the site investigation studies, we need to make scientifically rigorous estimations of radionuclide migration in the event of a repository breach. …
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The distribution of vertical groundwater flow in the saturated zone of the Yucca Mountain area: A cross-sectional finite element model
… to explore the saturated groundwater flow at Yucca Mountain in a multi-layer system. Cross-sectional modeling allows the simulation of vertical leakage not included in areal models. The cross section was constructed along an estimated streamline and is 84.3 kilometers long. The conceptual …
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Characterization of pozzolanic cement for radioactive waste disposal
… a natural pozzolanic material extracted from Yucca Mountain, Nevada; Portland-pozzolan and lime-pozzolan mixtures were created, analyzed and tested for compressive strength. In addition, the pH of several mixtures was monitored and the values recorded periodically over the first eight days of …
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Thermal considerations in the drift due to the emplacement of a horizontal high level nuclear waste container
The Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project is investigating the feasibility of locating a high level radioactive nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The design of waste containers to be used for the long term storage of the high level nuclear waste has progressed from the …
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Waste characteristics of spent nuclear fuel from a pebble bed reactor
… characteristics as applied to the conditions of Yucca Mountain is of major concern when determining the cost of disposing of the larger volumes of spent pebble fuel. Graphite is a unique waste form and atypical of waste designated for Yucca Mountain. The interactions of silicon carbide with …
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Impact assessment using geographic information system (Gis): Transportation engineering applications
… and landuse impact assessment studies; Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas Nevada has been chosen as the site of a proposed repository for high level nuclear waste. This proposed siting has motivated the study of potential transportation related impacts. GIS may be used to …
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Mechanical properties of tuffaceous rocks under triaxial conditions
Yucca Mountain has been designated as a potential site for a high level nuclear waste repository. Part of the site characterization program is an investigation of the mechanical properties of the tuffs which comprise Yucca Mountain. The study tested specimens of TCw tuff in triaxial compression to …
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Fear itself: Assessing the risks of transporting high-level nuclear waste
… of transporting high level radioactive waste to Yucca Mountain, NV. Risk assessment, a lineal descendant of cost-benefit analysis, is an increasingly popular tool for justifying policy or programmatic decisions that involve some potential for public harm. The study uses Frank Fischer's framework …
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Feasibility of lateral emplacement in very deep borehole disposal of high level nuclear waste
… for the High Level Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. As the U.S. has focused exclusively on geologic disposal in shallow mined repositories for the past two decades, an examination of disposal alternatives will be necessary should the Yucca Mountain Project be terminated. …
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Risk analysis for hazardous materials transportation using geographic information system
Yucca Mountain, Nevada is being evaluated as a potential repository site for storing high level radioactive materials. The material will be transported by highway or rail to the repository from nuclear reactors and other federal sites located throughout the United States. The selection and design …
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Long-term desorption behavior of uranium and neptunium in heterogeneous volcanic tuff materials
… volcanic tuff cores collected from southeast of Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The objectives of the experiments were to 1. Demonstrate a methodology aimed at characterizing <italic>distributions<italic> of sorption parameters (attributes of multiple sorption sites) that can be applied to …
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Environmental behavior of hafnium : the impact on the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium
… the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium in Yucca Mountain. The hydrolysis of hafnium was investigated by potentiometric titration in solutions of varying ionic strength to determine the stability constants for the first four monomeric hydrolysis products. The specific ion interaction theory …
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Risky business: Moral arguments againts the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 Can consent be engineered?
… proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Congress has ignored this basic principle. An unwilling population in a politically weak state has been forced to bear the burden from highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear power reactors operating in the majority of …
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Radiation exposure liability : the burden of responsibility and compensation in civilian and military nuclear ventures
… applied to future nuclear ventures such as the Yucca Mountain Repository.
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Effect of atmospheric variations on subsurface flow and transport
… at the proposed high level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The conditions of subsurface transport were simulated with NUFT (Nonisothermal Unsaturated-Saturated Flow and Transport model) modeling software developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Labs (Nitao, 1995). Rock properties …
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