“…The Preliminary Near-Field Environment Report, Volume I: Technical Bases for EBS Design was published in 1993 to summarize, in a form that could be readily used by repository designers and analysts, the state of knowledge of expected near field conditions (Wilder, 1993). This volume was revised in 1997 and renamed the Near-Field and Altered-Zone Environment Report, Volume I: Technical Bases for EBS Design to emphasize the importance of thermally driven coupled processes in the host rock (Wilder, 1997).…”