Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence
Abstract
This paper discusses exposures of altered rock that have been thought to form by recent discharge of water from depth. They were examined to address a concern that hydrothermal processes could compromise the isolation capability of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Suspected hot-spring and hydrothermal-vent deposits are more likely the products of infiltration of meteoric water into newly deposited and still-hot pyroclastic flows >12 Myr ago.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 138645
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-92-3549; CONF-921101-6
ON: DE93003790; TRN: 93:004868
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. Materials Research Society (MRS) fall meeting, Boston, MA (United States), 30 Nov - 5 Dec 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; TUFF; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEISMOLOGY; SILICON OXIDES; Yucca Mountain Project; Geothermal Legacy
Citation Formats
Levy, S S. Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence. United States: N. p., 1992.
Web.
Levy, S S. Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence. United States.
Levy, S S. 1992.
"Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/138645.
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abstractNote = {This paper discusses exposures of altered rock that have been thought to form by recent discharge of water from depth. They were examined to address a concern that hydrothermal processes could compromise the isolation capability of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Suspected hot-spring and hydrothermal-vent deposits are more likely the products of infiltration of meteoric water into newly deposited and still-hot pyroclastic flows >12 Myr ago.},
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