Thermohydeologic Behavior at the Potential Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

Thermohydeologic Behavior at the Potential Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository [electronic resource]

Radioactive decay of high-level nuclear waste emplaced in a Yucca Mountain repository will produce an initial heat flux on the order of 30 to 50 times the heat flux in the Geysers geothermal reservoir in California (Hardin et al., 1998). Even though the rate of heat production decreases rapidly with...

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Online Access: Online Access (via OSTI)
Corporate Author: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Department of Energy. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 2000.
Subjects:
California.
Decay.
Heat Flux.
Performance.
Positioning.
Production.
Radioactive Wastes.
Yucca Mountain.
Management Of Radioactive Wastes, And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities.
Geosciences.
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Summary:Radioactive decay of high-level nuclear waste emplaced in a Yucca Mountain repository will produce an initial heat flux on the order of 30 to 50 times the heat flux in the Geysers geothermal reservoir in California (Hardin et al., 1998). Even though the rate of heat production decreases rapidly with time after emplacement, this heat flux will change the thermal and hydrologic environment, affecting both the host rock and conditions within the drifts in ways significant to key repository performance variables.
Item Description:Published through SciTech Connect.
02/17/2000.
"ucrl-id-137653"
Buscheck, T.A.; Rosenburg, N.D.; Gansemer, J.; Sun, Y.
Physical Description:1,900 Kilobytes pages : digital, PDF file.

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