The use of TOUGH2/iTOUGH2 in support of the Yucca MountainProject: Successes and limitations
The TOUGH2/iTOUGH2 family of codes is being used to analyze various processes and phenomena in the unsaturated zone at the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Various models have been developed that help quantify properties of the volcanic tuffs, water flow, seepage into drifts, and thermally driven coupled processes arising from the heat emitted by radioactive waste. These models are based on various assumptions and approximations that are generally accepted in the literature, but can give rise to different degrees of uncertainty. Some of the key approaches utilized include the continuum approximation, the van Genuchten formulation, the active fracture model, and homogeneous sublayers. These and other approximations are presented separately for the five different models considered, and the resulting levels of uncertainty are discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive WasteManagement
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 881600
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-52594; R&D Project: 81BB11; BnR: 820101000; TRN: US0602939
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: TOUGH Symposium 2003, LBNL, 12-14 May2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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