Criteria for design of the Yucca Mountain structures, systems and components for fault displacement
- Woodward-Clyde Federal Services, Austin, TX (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- M and O/Duke Engineering, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
- A.F.T. Agapito and Associates, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (United States)
The DOE intends to design the Yucca Mountain high-level waste facility structures, systems and components (SSCs) for fault displacements to provide reasonable assurance that they will meet the preclosure safety performance objectives established by 10 CFR Part 60. To the extent achievable, fault displacement design of the facility will follow guidance provided in the NRC Staff Technical Position. Fault avoidance will be the primary design criterion, especially for spatially compact or clustered SSCs. When fault avoidance is not reasonably achievable, expected to be the case for most spatially extended SSCs, engineering design procedures and criteria or repair and rehabilitation actions, depending on the SSC`s importance to safety, are provided. SSCs that have radiological safety importance will be designed for fault displacements that correspond to the hazard exceedance frequency equal to their established seismic safety performance goals. Fault displacement loads are generally localized and may cause local inelastic response of SSCs. For this reason, the DOE intends to use strain-based design acceptance criteria similar to the strain-based criteria used to design nuclear plant SSCs for impact and impulsive loads.
- Research Organization:
- US Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI08-92NV10874
- OSTI ID:
- 453467
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9509279-3; ON: DE97003832; TRN: 97:006773
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: FOCUS `95: methods of seismic hazard evaluation, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 18-20 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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