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Title: Thermal calculations pertaining to a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository

Abstract

In support to the Yucca Mountain Project waste package and repository design efforts, LLNL conducted heat-transfer modeling of the volcanic tuff in the repository. The analyses quantify: the thermal response of a finite size, uniformly loaded repository where each panel of emplacement drifts contains the same type of heat source the response given a realistic waste stream inventory to show the effect of inter-panel variations; and the intra-panel response for various realistic distributions of sources within the panel. The calculations, using the PLUS family of computer codes, are based on a linear superposition, in time and in space, of the analytic solution of individual, constant output point sources located in an infinite, isotropic, and homogeneous medium with constant thermal properties. 8 refs., 22 figs., 3 tabs.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
137934
Report Number(s):
UCRL-ID-103534
ON: DE91001082
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Feb 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; HEAT TRANSFER; P CODES; TUFF; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; SPENT FUELS; CONTAINERS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; CALCULATION METHODS; WASTE FORMS; Yucca Mountain Project

Citation Formats

Johnson, G L, and Montan, D N. Thermal calculations pertaining to a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. United States: N. p., 1990. Web. doi:10.2172/137934.
Johnson, G L, & Montan, D N. Thermal calculations pertaining to a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/137934
Johnson, G L, and Montan, D N. 1990. "Thermal calculations pertaining to a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/137934. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/137934.
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abstractNote = {In support to the Yucca Mountain Project waste package and repository design efforts, LLNL conducted heat-transfer modeling of the volcanic tuff in the repository. The analyses quantify: the thermal response of a finite size, uniformly loaded repository where each panel of emplacement drifts contains the same type of heat source the response given a realistic waste stream inventory to show the effect of inter-panel variations; and the intra-panel response for various realistic distributions of sources within the panel. The calculations, using the PLUS family of computer codes, are based on a linear superposition, in time and in space, of the analytic solution of individual, constant output point sources located in an infinite, isotropic, and homogeneous medium with constant thermal properties. 8 refs., 22 figs., 3 tabs.},
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year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
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