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Title: ERMYN: Environmental Radiation Model for the Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/808015· OSTI ID:808015

This paper briefly describes a new biosphere model, ERMYN, that was developed to characterize biosphere processes for radionuclides released from the proposed high-level radioactive waste geologic repository at Yucca Mountain (YM). Biosphere modeling for YM is conducted independently for two radionuclide release modes and resulting exposure scenarios, groundwater release and volcanic release. This paper focuses on the model for groundwater release. The groundwater release exposure scenario addresses the case in which the geosphere-biosphere interface is well extraction of contaminated groundwater.

Research Organization:
Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI ID:
808015
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 18 Nov 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English