Natural analogs for Yucca Mountain
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (United States)
High-level radioactive waste in the US, spent fuels from commercial reactors and nuclear materials generated by defense activities, will remain potentially hazardous for thousands of years. Demonstrable long-term stability of certain geologic and geochemical systems motivates and sustains the concept that high-level waste can be safely isolated in geologic repositories for requisite periods of time. Each geologic repository is unique in its properties and performance with reguard to isolation of nuclear wastes. Studies of processes analogous to waste-form alteration and radioelement transport in environments analogous to Yucca Mountain are being conducted at two sites, described in this article to illustrate uses of natural analog data: the Nopal I uranium deposit in the Sierra Pena Blanca, Mexico, and the Akrotiri archaeological site on the island of Santorini, Greece.
- OSTI ID:
- 183589
- Journal Information:
- Radwaste Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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