Uncertainty underground : Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste

Uncertainty underground : Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste / edited by Allison M. Macfarlane and Rodney C. Ewing.

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Other Authors: Macfarlane, Allison, Ewing, Rodney C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground > Nevada > Yucca Mountain.
Radioactive waste sites > Nevada > Yucca Mountain > Evaluation.
Geology > Nevada > Yucca Mountain Region.
Radioactive waste disposal > Government policy > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton
  • Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. Murphy
  • Performance assessment : what is it and why is it done? / Chris Whipple
  • Performance assessments : are they necessary or sufficient? / Rodney C. Ewing
  • Technical policy decision making in siting a high-level nuclear waste repository / Allison M. Macfarlane
  • The mountain matters / David Applegate
  • Volcanism : the continuing saga / Bruce M. Crowe ... [et al.]
  • Climate change at Yucca Mountain : lessons from earth history / MaryLynn Musgrove and Daniel P. Schrag
  • Hot upwelling water : did it really invade Yucca Mountain? / Nicholas S.F. Wilson and Jean S. Cline
  • Water and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone / June Fabryka-Martin ... [et al.]
  • Colloidal transport of radionuclides / Annie B. Kersting
  • The importance of mineralogy at Yucca Mountain / David L. Bish ... [et al.]
  • Contaminant transport in the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain / Lynn W. Gelhar
  • Thermohydrologic effects and interactions / G.S. Bodvarsson
  • The near field at Yucca Mountain : effects of coupled processes on nuclear waste isolation / William M. Murphy
  • Waste package corrosion / David W. Shoesmith
  • Drip shield and backfill / David Stahl
  • Zircaloy cladding / Eric R. Siegmann
  • Spent fuel / Jordi Bruno and Esther Cera
  • Glass / Werner Lutze
  • Storing waste in ceramic / WiIliam L. Bourcier and Kurt Sickafus
  • The path to Yucca Mountain and beyond / Luther J. Carter
  • Uncertainty, models, and the way forward in nuclear waste disposal / Allison M. Macfarlane.

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