Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations: Exploratory Shaft Facility fluids and materials evaluation

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/60644· OSTI ID:60644

West, K A

The objective of this study was to determine if any fluids or materials used in the Exploratory Shaft Facility (ESF) of Yucca Mountain will make the mountain unsuitable for future construction of a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain, an area on and adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in southern Nevada, USA, is a candidate site for permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from commercial nuclear power and defense nuclear activities. To properly characterize Yucca Mountain, it will be necessary to construct an underground test facility, in which in situ site characterization tests can be conducted. The candidate repository horizon at Yucca Mountain, however, could potentially be compromised by fluids and materials used in the site characterization tests. To minimize this possibility, Los Alamos National Laboratory was directed to evaluate the kinds of fluids and materials that will be used and their potential impacts on the site. A secondary objective was to identify fluids and materials, if any, that should be prohibited from, or controlled in, the underground. 56 refs., 19 figs., 11 tabs.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 60644
• Report Number(s): LA--11398-MS; ON: DE89005292
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
CONTAMINATION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DECISION TREE ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FLOW RATE
FLUIDS
GROUND WATER
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
HYDROCARBONS
MINE SHAFTS
NEVADA
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
TUFF
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project