ERMYN: Environmental Radiation Model for the Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Abstract

This paper briefly describes a new biosphere model, ERMYN, that was developed to characterize biosphere processes for radionuclides released fiom the proposed high-level radioactive waste geologic repository at Yucca Mountain (YM). Biosphere modeling for YM is conducted independently for two radionuclide release modes and resulting exposure scenarios, groundwater release and volcanic release. This paper focuses on the model for groundwater release. The groundwater release exposure scenario addresses the case in which the geosphere-biosphere interface is well extraction of contaminated groundwater.