Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence

Conference · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:138645

Levy, S S

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.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 138645
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-92-3549; CONF-921101-6; ON: DE93003790; TRN: 93:004868
• 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

Related Subjects

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