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

Journal Article · Mon Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:899288

Levich, R A; Stuckless, J S

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.

• Research Organization: Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: NA
• OSTI ID: 899288
• Report Number(s): NA; MOL.20061220.0013, DC# 49001; TRN: US0702028
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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