Effects of perched water on thermally driven moisture flow at the proposed yucca mountain repository for high-level waste

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 235-253

  Ofoegbu, Goodluck I ^a   Bagtzoglou, Amvrossios C ^a,b   Green, Ronald T ^a   Muller, Michael A ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Perched water; Thermal hydrology; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROLOGY; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PERCHED WATER; THERMALLY DRIVEN MOISTURE FLOW;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 0033080195     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT99-A2945     Document Type: Article

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