Hydrologic technical correspondence in support of the site characterization plan

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:60666

Peters, R R

This document is composed of five technical memoranda containing information that has been used in preparing the plan to characterize the site of a prospective high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Yucca Mountain Project is investigating the feasibility of emplacing high-level waste in unsaturated tuff at this site. The information in this report pertains to (1) how the use of water during construction may affect the surrounding site conditions and consequently affect estimates of the in situ hydrologic parameters and water movement in fractured tuff, (2) calculations concerning the response of a fractured tuff column to changes in vertical flux, and (3) changes in groundwater travel-time that may result from water redistribution caused by repository heating, (4) some potential effects of seismicity on water movement and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone, and (5) the rate at which a tuff column returns to steady-state conditions after being saturated by a fluctuating water table.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 60666
• Report Number(s): SAND--88-2784; ON: DE89007918
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
CONTAMINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FLOW RATE
GROUND WATER
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MODIFICATIONS
PLANNING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
ROCK MECHANICS
SEISMIC EVENTS
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
TUFF
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
WATER TABLES
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project