Testing claims about volcanic disruption of a potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Coleman, N M ^a   Abramson, L R ^a   Marsh, B D ^b  

^a U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

6309 Policy sciences: Decision making under uncertainty; 6329 Policy sciences: Project evaluation; 6620 Public issues: Science policy; 8499 Volcanology: General or miscellaneous; 9604 Information related to geologic time: Cenozoic

Indexed keywords

BASALT; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; VOLCANOES;

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTRUSION FREQUENCY; PENETRATION ENERGY; REPOSITORY SITES;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 14544307395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021032     Document Type: Article

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