Nevada nuclear waste storage investigations. Quarterly report, January--March 1979

Technical Report · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:59015

The processing of weapons test ground motion acceleration data for Pahute Mesa events is 86% complete. The geology, hydrology, and geophysics of drill holes UE25a # 1 and UE25a # 3 were completed as draft reports. Preliminary analysis of the Calico Hills gravity data shows that the anomalous mass is coincident with the principal body producing the magnetic anomoly (inferred to be the intrusive at depth). Mapping of Quaternary deposits has been completed for the Calico Hills-Northern Jackass Flats area. Forty-one seismograph stations have been installed as part of the Southern Great Basin seismograph network. A fission track age of about 6 m.y. was obtained on zircon from a sample of rhyolitic lump pumice collected from beneath the basalt in southeastern Crater Flat. Power was turned off to the Eleana near-surface experiment. The heater and instrumentation system design for the tuff in-stu test was completed. Batch sorption measurements on Yiucca Mountain cores were highly favorable for the isotopes studied: {sup 85}Sr, {sup 137}Cs, {sup 133}Ce, and {sup 152}Eu. Petrological characterization of core samples from the Yucca Mountain drill hole was completed. Mining of the heater drifts and the railcar room was completed for the spent fuel test: Climax. Final design reviews for the spent fuel test handling system and canister, liners, shield plug, and electrical simulators were held.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Las Vegas, NV (United States). Nevada Operations Office
• OSTI ID: 59015
• Report Number(s): NVO--196-10
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
DESIGN
GEOLOGY
GROUND MOTION
HYDROLOGY
NEVADA TEST SITE
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
SEISMIC EFFECTS
SITE SELECTION
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
Yucca Mountain Project