Transport of radon gas into a tunnel at Yucca Mountain - Estimating large-scale fractured tuff hydraulic properties and implications for the operation of the ventilation system

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 153-171

  Unger, André ^a   Finsterle, Stefan ^b   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture permeability; Fracture porosity; Inverse modeling; Radon; Ventilation; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FRACTOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; TUNNELS;

FRACTURED TUFFS; RADON DATA;

RADON;

RADON;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RADON; TUNNEL; VENTILATION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GAS DIFFUSION; MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM VENTILATION; VENTILATOR;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONFINED SPACES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEVADA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RADON; VENTILATION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 2342646819     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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