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Test concept for waste package environment tests at Yucca Mountain

Conference ·
OSTI ID:60351
The Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations Project is characterizing a tuffaceous rock unit at Yucca Mountain, Nevada to evaluate its suitability for a repository for high level radioactive waste. The candidate repository horizon is a welded, devitrified tuff bed located at a depth of about 300 m in the unsaturated zone, over 100 m above the water table. Waste package environment tests are being conducted in an exploratory shaft test facility at Yucca Mountain. The status and development of these tests are described in this article.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
60351
Report Number(s):
CONF-870625--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
CONTAINERS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IN-SITU PROCESSING
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MOUNTAINS
NEVADA
PLANNING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
ROCK MECHANICS
ROCKS
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
TESTING
TUFF
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
WASTE-ROCK INTERACTIONS
Yucca Mountain Project