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Preliminary postclosure risk assessment: Yucca Mountain, Nevada, candidate repository site

Year: 1989

Type: paratext

Abstract: A study was conducted by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, to estimate the postclosure risk, in terms of population health effects, of a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The risk estimates cover a time span of 1 million years following repository closure. Representative disruptive and intrusive events were selected and evaluated in addition to expected conditions. The estimates were generated assuming spent fuel as the waste form and included all important nuclides from inventory, half-life and dose perspectives. The base case results yield an estimate of 36 health effects over the first million years of repository operation. The doses attributed to the repository corresponds to about 0.1 percent of the doses received from natural background radiation. 16 refs., 1 fig.

Source: OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Authors: Paul W. Eslinger, D.M. Elwood, Freshley, P. W. Reimus, J.E. Tanner, P.G. Doctor, D.W. Engel, A.M. Liebetrau, D.L. Strenge, A.E. Van Luik

Language: English

Topic: Nuclear and radioactivity studies

Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W10368591

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