Sensitivity analyses for total-system performance assessment
As a follow-on to Sandia`s 1991 preliminary total-system performance assessment of the Yucca Mountain site, this paper presents results of some sensitivity analyses that were done using results from the 1991 study. Two conceptual models of unsaturated-zone flow and transport at Yucca Mountain were included in the study, including both aqueous and gaseous releases. The sensitivities are quite different for the two models. For the composite-porosity model, the results are most sensitive to groundwater percolation flux, gaseous transport time, container lifetime, and fuel-matrix-alteration rate. For the weeps model, the results are most sensitive to parameters used to characterize fracture flow (fracture aperture and fracture connectivity) and infiltration (percolation flux and weep-episode factor).
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 138897
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-92-2600C; CONF-930408-16; ON: DE93006753; TRN: 93:006376
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. international high-level radioactive waste management conference, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 25-29 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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