Expected dose and associated uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results for all scenario classes in the 2008 performance assessment for the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 421-435

  Helton, J C ^a   Hansen, C W ^a   Sallaberry, C J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

All scenario classes; Epistemic uncertainty; Expected dose; Performance assessment; Radioactive waste disposal; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; LANDFORMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALL SCENARIO CLASSES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; EXPECTED DOSE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887142127     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.06.016     Document Type: Article

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