Yucca Mountain, Nevada - A Proposed Geologic Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (Volume 1) Introduction

Levich, R A; Stuckless, J S

Title: Yucca Mountain, Nevada - A Proposed Geologic Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (Volume 1) Introduction

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Yucca Mountain in Nevada represents the proposed solution to what has been a lengthy national effort to dispose of high-level radioactive waste, waste which must be isolated from the biosphere for tens of thousands of years. This chapter reviews the background of that national effort and includes some discussion of international work in order to provide a more complete framework for the problem of waste disposal. Other chapters provide the regional geologic setting, the geology of the Yucca Mountain site, the tectonics, and climate (past, present, and future). These last two chapters are integral to prediction of long-term waste isolation.

Authors:: Levich, R A; Stuckless, J S

Publication Date:: 2006-09-25

Research Org.:: Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, NV (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 899288

Report Number(s):: NA
MOL.20061220.0013, DC# 49001; TRN: US0702028

DOE Contract Number:: NA

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATES; FORECASTING; GEOLOGY; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; TECTONICS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN

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