Ground Water at Yucca Mountain How High Can It Rise? (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
Introduction
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This legislation required that the federal government clevelop a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of the high level radioactive wastes from civilian nuclear power plants. This waste consists primarily of spent nuclear fuel.
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, preliminary field studies into the geology and ground-water flow system were conducted to determine the scope of the investigations needed to understand the natural systems that may be active in the region. Based on his interpretations of field observations, a DOE staff scientist suggested that the ground water had risen well above the level proposed for the MODS more than once in the geologically recent past and that such an event could happen again, flooding the mined geologic repository.
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This hypothesis was based primarily on interpretations of geological observations at Yucca Mountain and vicinity. The report ascribed near-surface and subsurface veins composed mainly of carbonate and silica, breccias cemented by carbonate and silica, and surficial, surface-parallel deposits of carbonate and silica to emanations of hydrothermal fluids driven to the surface by tectonic and thermal pressurization of ground water by earthquake or thermal processes.
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The following chapters of this report provide details of the panel's analysis of the field information and the published literature, the results of preliminary modeling studies done by panel members and others, and some direct analysis of raw data made available to the panel by field investigators of the region. Chapter 2 evaluates the evidence related to the level of the water table through time.
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1989. Conceptual Considerations of He Yucca Mountain Ground Water System with Special Emphasis on the Adequacy of This System to Accommodate a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository.
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