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Title: Pre-construction geologic section along the cross drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

Abstract

As part of the Site Characterization effort for the US Department of Energy`s Yucca Mountain Project, tunnels excavated by tunnel boring machines provide access to the volume of rock that is under consideration for possible underground storage of high-level nuclear waste beneath Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Exploratory Studies Facility, a 7.8-km-long, 7.6-m-diameter tunnel, has been excavated, and a 2.8-km-long, 5-m-diameter Cross Drift will be excavated in 1998 as part of the geologic, hydrologic and geotechnical evaluation of the potential repository. The southwest-trending Cross Drift branches off of the north ramp of the horseshoe-shaped Exploratory Studies Facility. This report summarizes an interpretive geologic section that was prepared for the Yucca Mountain Project as a tool for use in the design and construction of the Cross Drift.

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  1. Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
  2. Pacific Western Technologies, Ltd., Denver, CO (United States)
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Research Org.:
Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
303971
Report Number(s):
USGS-OFR-98-530
ON: DE99001376; TRN: 99:003098
DOE Contract Number:
AI08-92NV10874
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1998]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TUNNELS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; GEOLOGY; DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION; MAPS

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Potter, C.J., Day, W.C., Sweetkind, D.S., Juan, C.S., and Drake, R.M. II. Pre-construction geologic section along the cross drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. doi:10.2172/303971.
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Potter, C.J., Day, W.C., Sweetkind, D.S., Juan, C.S., & Drake, R.M. II. Pre-construction geologic section along the cross drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. United States. doi:10.2172/303971.
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Potter, C.J., Day, W.C., Sweetkind, D.S., Juan, C.S., and Drake, R.M. II. Thu . "Pre-construction geologic section along the cross drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada". United States. doi:10.2172/303971. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/303971.
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@article{osti_303971,
title = {Pre-construction geologic section along the cross drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada},
author = {Potter, C.J. and Day, W.C. and Sweetkind, D.S. and Juan, C.S. and Drake, R.M. II},
abstractNote = {As part of the Site Characterization effort for the US Department of Energy`s Yucca Mountain Project, tunnels excavated by tunnel boring machines provide access to the volume of rock that is under consideration for possible underground storage of high-level nuclear waste beneath Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Exploratory Studies Facility, a 7.8-km-long, 7.6-m-diameter tunnel, has been excavated, and a 2.8-km-long, 5-m-diameter Cross Drift will be excavated in 1998 as part of the geologic, hydrologic and geotechnical evaluation of the potential repository. The southwest-trending Cross Drift branches off of the north ramp of the horseshoe-shaped Exploratory Studies Facility. This report summarizes an interpretive geologic section that was prepared for the Yucca Mountain Project as a tool for use in the design and construction of the Cross Drift.},
doi = {10.2172/303971},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1998},
month = {Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1998}
}
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DOI:  10.2172/303971
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