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

Abstract

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:
;
Publication Date:
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

Citation Formats

Levich, R A, and Stuckless, J S. Yucca Mountain, Nevada - A Proposed Geologic Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (Volume 1) Introduction. United States: N. p., 2006. Web.
Levich, R A, & Stuckless, J S. Yucca Mountain, Nevada - A Proposed Geologic Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (Volume 1) Introduction. United States.
Levich, R A, and Stuckless, J S. 2006. "Yucca Mountain, Nevada - A Proposed Geologic Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (Volume 1) Introduction". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/899288.
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year = {Mon Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006},
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