Uncertainty underground: Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2006
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Preface -- - Acknowledgments -- - Contributors -- - 1 - Introduction - Allison M. Macfarlane - and - Rodney C. Ewing -- - pt. 1 - Policy -- - 2 - Nuclear waste story : setting the stage - Thomas A. Cotton -- - 3 - Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain - William M. Murphy -- - 4 - Performance assessment : what is it and why is it done? - Chris Whipple -- - 5 - Performance assessments : are they necessary or sufficient? - Rodney C. Ewing -- - 6 - Technical policy decision making in siting a high-level nuclear waste repository - Allison M. Macfarlane
pt. 2 - Science and technology -- - 1 - Earth science -- - 7 - The mountain matters - David Applegate -- - 8 - Volcanism : the continuing saga - Bruce M. Crowe - Greg A. Valentine - Grank V. Perry - and - Paul K. Black -- - 9 - Climate change at Yucca Mountain : lessons from earth history - MaryLynn Musgrove - and - Daniel P. Schrag -- - 2 - Hydrology -- - 10 - Hot upwelling water : did it really invade Yucca Mountain? - Nicholas S.F. Wilson - and - Jean S. Cline -- - 11 - Water and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone - June Fabryka-Martin - Alan Flint - Arend Meijer - and - Gilles Bussod -- - 12 - Colloidal transport of radionuclides - Annie B. Kersting -- - 13 - The importance of mineralogy at Yucca Mountain - David L. Bish - J. William Carey - Steve J. Chipera - and - David T. Vaniman -- - 14 - Contaminant transport in the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain - Lynn W. Gelhar -- - 3 - Thermohydrology -- - 15 - Thermohydrologic effects and interactions - G.S. Bodvarsson -- - 16. The - near field at Yucca Mountain : effects of coupled processes on nuclear waste isolation - William M. Murphy -- - 4 - Waste package behavior -- - 17 - Waste package corrosion - David W. Shoesmith -- - 18 - Drip shield and backfill - David Stahl -- - 5 - Waste forms -- - 19 - Zircaloy cladding - Eric R. Siegmann -- - 20 - Spent fuel - Jordi Bruno - and - Esther Cera -- - 21 - Glass - Werner Lutze -- - 22 - Storing waste in ceramic - WiIliam L. Bourcier - and - Kurt Sickafus
pt. 3 - Coping with uncertainty -- - 23 - The path to Yucca Mountain and beyond - Luther J. Carter -- - 24 - Uncertainty, models, and the way forward in nuclear waste disposal - Allison M. Macfarlane -- - Index
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