Yucca mountain 2008 performance assessment: Modeling the natural system

American Nuclear Society - 12th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 550-558

  Mattie, Patrick D ^a   Hadgu, Teklu ^a   Lester, Barry ^b   Smith, Anthony ^c   Wasiolek, Maryla ^a   Zwahlen, Eric ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b GeoTrans Inc   (United States)

^c AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DATA REQUIREMENTS; DUAL POROSITY; DUAL-PERMEABILITY; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; INFILTRATED PRECIPITATION; LAND SURFACE; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHASE FLUID; PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT; SATURATED ZONE; UNSATURATED ZONE; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LANDFORMS; MODELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70449091555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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