Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations. Geologic and hydrologic investigation of Yucca Mountain: peer review documentation
This document is a compilation of review comments on the geologic and hydrologic investigation of Yucca Mountain. This investigation is being managed by the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI). The principal NNWSI participant organizations conducting the investigation are the US Geological Survey and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The objective of this investigation is to determine whether Yucca Mountain is a technically acceptable location to site an underground, high-level nuclear waste repository. The NNWSI are a part of the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) Program of the US Department of Energy (DOE). The NNWSI are in the process of developing or improving the technology for high-level nuclear waste handling, containment, and isolation, and determining whether potentially suitable rock units on or adjoining the Nevada Test Site (NTS) are technically acceptable for a licensed, permanent nuclear waste repository. The review comments compiled in this document are the result of a peer review meeting and tour conducted on September 23-25, 1980, in Las Vegas and at the NTS. The list of peer reviewers and agendas for the three days of the review precede the review comments. The correspondence transmitting the reviews are presented in chronological order. The later review commentaries are those of the NNWSI Technical Project Officers representing the US Geological Survey and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The final summary review commentary is that of the NNWSI Technical Overview Contractor, Sandia National Laboratories.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Las Vegas, NV (United States). Nevada Operations Office
- OSTI ID:
- 59032
- Report Number(s):
- NVO--196-22; ON: DE81025613
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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