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Title: Ground Water at Yucca Mountain
Condition: New
Subtitle: How High Can It Rise?
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 030904748X
EAN: 9780309047487
ISBN: 9780309047487
Publisher: National Academies Press
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Release Date: 01/02/1992
Description:

The site of a proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste from the nation's nuclear power plants is not at risk of ground water infiltration, concludes this important book. Yucca Mountain, located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been proposed as the site for permanent underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste from the nation's civilian nuclear power plants.

To resolve concerns raised by a Department of Energy (DOE) staff scientist concerning the potential for ground water to rise 1,000 feet to the level proposed for the repository, DOE requested this study to evaluate independently the past history and future potential of large upward excursions of the ground water beneath Yucca Mountain.

Table of Contents
  • Front Matter
  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Water Levels in the Vicinity of the Proposed Repository in the ast100,000 Years
  • Might Increased Rainfall Cause Flooding of the Proposed Repository?
  • Can an Igneous Intrusion Raise the Water Table to the ProposedRepository Level?
  • Could a Nearby Earthquake Cause Flooding of the ProposedRepository?
  • Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Appendix A: A Review of the Isotopic Geochemistry of the YuccaMountain, Nevada, Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository Site
  • Appendix B: Yucca Mountain: Ground-Water Flow
  • Appendix C: The Effects of Pluvial Climates in the Vicinity ofYucca Mountain: A Summary
  • Appendix D: Response of the Ground-Water System at Yucca Mountainto an Earthquake
  • Appendix E: Probabilities of Earthquakes Near Yucca Mountain,Nevada

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: No Author
Release Year: 1992

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