Initial Q-list for the prospective Yucca Mountain repository based on items important to safety and waste isolation
A method for identifying items important to safety based on a probabilistic risk assessment approach was developed and implemented for the conceptual design of the Yucca Mountain repository. No items were classified as important to safety; however, six items were classified as potentially important to safety. These were the shipping cask, the cranes and the truck or rail-car vehicle stops in the cask receiving and preparation area, the hot cell structure of the waste packaging hot cells, the cranes in the waste packaging hot cells, and the waste-handling building fire protection system. In addition, a method for identifying items important to waste isolation was developed and implemented. Two hydrogeologic units of the Yucca Mountain site were classified as important to waste isolation: the Calico Hills nonwelded zeolitic unit and the Calico Hills nonwelded vitric unit. The preliminary Q-list for the Yucca Mountain repository is comprised of the two units of the site classified as important to waste isolation and contains no items important to safety.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Bechtel National, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States). Advanced Technology Div.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 60041
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--86-1965C; CONF-870306--20; ON: DE87005854
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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