Thermohydeologic Behavior at the Potential Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
Year: 2000
Type: report
Abstract: 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.
DOI: 10.2172/792427
Authors: T A Buscheck, N D Rosenburg, J Gansemer, Y Sun
Language: English
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3851040