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Analysis of releases due to drilling at the potential Yucca Mountain repository

Journal Article · · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
OSTI ID:145583
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  1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Human intrusion into the potential repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was modeled in the Total-System Performance Assessment (TSPA-91) recently completed for the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office of the U.S. Department of Energy. The scenario modeled assumed that the repository would be penetrated at random locations by a number of boreholes drilled using 20th-century rotary drilling techniques. The probabilities of this scenario occurring depend on several factors. For these analyses, it was assumed that there was a probability of 1.0 that people would be drilling at the site for 10,000 yr.

OSTI ID:
145583
Report Number(s):
CONF-931160--
Journal Information:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 69; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English