Overview of total system model used for 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 249-266

  Hansen, C W ^a   Birkholzer, J T ^b   Blink, J ^c   Bryan, C R ^a   Chen, Y ^d   Gross, M B ^e   Hardin, E ^a   Houseworth, J ^b   Howard, R ^g   Jarek, R ^a   Lee, K P ^h   Lester, B ⁱ   Mariner, P ^a   Mattie, P D ^a   Mehta, S ^j   Perry, F V ^f   Robinson, B ^f   Sassani, D ^a   Sevougian, S D ^a   Stein, J S ^a   Wasiolek, M ^a   more..

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Navarro Intera   (United States)

^e MG Enterprises   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h AREVA NP   (France)

ⁱ Savannah River Remediation LLC   (United States)

^j INTERA Incorporated   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Performance assessment; Radioactive waste disposal; Total system model; Uncertainty analysis; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERICS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; LANDFORMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERED BARRIER SYS-TEM; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORIES; IGNEOUS INTRUSIVE EVENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYSTEM MODELING; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84887165182     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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