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Integrated performance assessment model for waste package behavior and radionuclide release

Conference ·
OSTI ID:103039
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  1. Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, WA (United States)
Golder Associates Inc. (GAI) has developed a probabilistic total system performance assessment and strategy evaluation model (RIP) which can be applied in an iterative manner to evaluate repository site suitability and guide site characterization. This paper describes one component of the RIP software, the waste package behavior and radionuclide release model. The waste package component model considers waste package failure by various modes, matrix alteration/dissolution, and radionuclide mass transfer. Model parameters can be described as functions of local environmental conditions. The waste package component model is coupled to component models for far-field radionuclide transport and disruptive events. The model has recently been applied to the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain.
OSTI ID:
103039
Report Number(s):
CONF-920430--Vol.2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English