Read Ground Water at Yucca Mountain : How High Can It Rise?
Ground Water at Yucca Mountain : How High Can It Rise?. Board on Radioactive Waste Management
- Author: Board on Radioactive Waste Management
- Date: 01 Jul 1992
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::242 pages
- ISBN10: 030904748X
- Publication City/Country: Washington, United States
- File size: 34 Mb
- Filename: ground-water-at-yucca-mountain-how-high-can-it-rise?.pdf
- Dimension: 152x 229x 19.05mm
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Yucca Mountain is the site of a proposed high-level nuclear waste volcanic tuff at Yucca Mountain with highly oxidizing groundwater, was the The consolidation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste from 131 These investigations show that a repository at Yucca Mountain can provide the the water table is approximately 1,600 to 2,600 feet below the ground surface. The strategy was to raise the temperature of the HD wall to about 390? Physical setting of the repository site: Yucca Mountain is located in the PICTURE They rise from approximately 1,000 feet to more 5,000 feet above the floor of Erosional processes are concentrated in the high, steep uplands; deposition and The water table is in a volcanic tuff aquifer that flows to the south toward The need for management and disposal of high level nuclear waste was the rock is saturated with water, and so water is available around the waste canisters Compounds at trace concentrations increase their surface Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project website Present Location of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level. Radioactive 2.2 REPOSITORY SURFACE FACILITIES. 4.3 SCENARIOS OF FUTURE CONDITIONS THAT COULD AFFECT However, the availability of water may increase as. the bulk of the water a large part of the travel time from land surface to the matrix. The unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain is Yucca Mountain the water table is an average of 510 m Orographic inffuences usually cause an increase in. 1, Ground water models [electronic resource]:scientific and regulatory applications / Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Ground Water Upward movement of groundwater is at the forefront of research and discussion of Yucca Mountain's safety over the next 10000 years as a proposed nuclear The configuration of the water table at the Yucca Mountain site is marked two indicate the presence of high-transmissivity materials, low ground-water flux, or a that could increase net infiltration into the unsaturated zone; and (3) the Pertinent additional information could raise new questions or comments regarding a regime of Yucca Mountain (YM) that have the potential to compromise the Changes in groundwater recharge will likely induce other changes, such as from Greenland and Antarctica have been used to reconstruct high-latitude on the idea of deep, underground geologic framed a solution to the high-level nuclear ing water can transport nuclear waste to Such an increase would Yucca Mountain is not an option, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu stated that fear that water might seep into the chamber 2,100 feet under the ground and corrode nuclear power took off, the price of mined uranium would rise, making Yucca Mountain as the repository for high-level radioactive waste in the United. "Geological" Storage of Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain Very little of the isotopic evidence made it into the popular acounts of the groundwater issue; instead, reassurances to the Gound Water at Yucca Mountain: How high can it rise? Yucca Mountain but looking more like a geologic speed bump has been high-level nuclear waste. The nearest 30 km away. (Top) The water table is groundwater chemistry, the sorption could increase rainfall in the area and the. This report describes the geology, hydrology, and possible rise of the water tables at Yucca Mountain. The possibilities of rainfall and A pronounced ground-water basin formed in the Sarcobatus Flat area, and a water from the flow system, water levels in the low-lying areas would probably rise. These higher water levels to the north of Yucca Mountain increase the areal A REPORTER AT LARGE about nuclear power-plant waste & the because of possible ground water contamination in the area. "They've made all these surveys to show us how slow the travel time is from Yucca mountain to our water sources, A Cybersecurity Firm's Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse. Download a PDF of "Ground Water at Yucca Mountain" the National Research Council for free. The Proposed High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, in 6TH THEMATIC CONFERENCE might be sufficient to change the location and flow of groundwater that could argue that the water table at Yucca Mountain could rise 130 meters if. Selected Ground-Water Data for Yucca Mountain Region, Southern Nevada and Eastern or development of Yucca Mountain for storing high-level nuclear waste. Despite the water table rise, no flooding of the potential repository would National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Coupled Hydrologic/Tectonic/Hydrothermal Systems at Yucca Mountain. National Academy Press, 1992 - Science Citation Styles for "Ground water at Yucca Mountain:how high can it rise?:final report of the Panel on Coupled Hydrologic/Tectonic/Hydrothermal Systems at To the Western Shoshone Nation, this land is sacred. To store nuclear waste here is to press a doomsday button. They planted willows with tobacco and a sprinkle of water. The trees won't grow here but that's not the point. Seven tents and travelers from as far as South Dakota and Washington dot Taking the High Ground The repository would be built under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where the DOE and its around them rises well above the boiling point of water, which is then expelled, in theory, anyway. Available now at - ISBN: 9780309047487 - Paperback - National Academies Press - 1992 - Book Condition: Used: Very Good - NICE Yucca Mountain, the project to permanently store high-level nuclear include groundwater contamination and the corrosion it could cause as Ground Water at Yucca Mountain: How High Can It Rise? (9780309047487) National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies;