Yucca Mountain project total-system performance assessment preliminary analyses; Overview

Conference · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:140813

Barnard, R W; Dockery, H A ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This paper reports that Sandia National Laboratories and Pacific Northwest Laboratory have produced a coordinated initial total-system performance assessment analysis for the potential repository at Yucca Mountain. Analyses included radionuclide transport via groundwater and gas flow, human intrusion, tectonism, and basaltic igneous intrusion. Both abstracted and detailed calculations were used for the analyses. Probabilistic release distributions were calculated for the individual components, and a combined distribution for the overall behavior of the system was constructed. Results from the analyses using abstracted models indicate that this method produces reasonable outcomes based on the authors` current understanding of the site.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 140813
• Report Number(s): CONF-920430--; ISBN 0-87262-891-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES
GAS FLOW
GROUND WATER
HUMAN INTRUSION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
REVIEWS
SANDIA LABORATORIES
TECTONICS
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project