Preliminary total-system analysis of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain

Eslinger, Paul W.; Doremus, L.A.; Engel, David W.; Miley, T.B.; Murphy, Michael; Nichols, Will; White,; Langford, D.W.; Ouderkirk, S.J.

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“…The potential extension of the performance period meant that the dose to members of the general public could no longer be excluded from consideration. This need to perform comprehensive analyses of the doses associated with the release of radionuclides from a potential repository was identified in "Preliminary Total-System Analysis of a potential High-level Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain" (9).…”

Section: Biosphere Modeling In a Period Of Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dietary intake values were based on those used for the average individual considered in the Hanford Defense Waste Environmental Impact Statement (9). For those analyses in which the aquifer was assumed to provide an insufficient volume of water to support a farm, the dose assessment considered only the consumption of 2 liters of water per day (9).…”

Section: Biosphere Modeling In a Period Of Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analysis of the surface contamination path considered three receptors of interest: a driller, a post-intrusion resident who had a garden, and a post-intrusion resident who did not have a garden (9). In these analyses, each of the receptors was assumed to be located directly above the repository.…”

Section: Biosphere Modeling In a Period Of Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Biosphere Modeling and Analyses in Support of Total System Performance Assessment

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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established the obligations of and the relationship between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the management and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes. In 1985, the EPA promulgated regulations that included a definition of performance assessment that did not consider potential dose to a member of the general public. This definition would influence the scope of activities conducted by DOE in support of the total system performance assessment program until 1995. The release of a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the technical basis for a Yucca Mountain-specific standard provided the impetus for the DOE to initiate activities that would consider the attributes of the biosphere, i.e. that portion of the earth where living things, including man, exist and interact with the environment around them.The evolution of NRC and EPA Yucca Mountain-specific regulations, originally proposed in 1999, was critical to the development and integration of biosphere modeling and analyses into the total system performance assessment program. These proposed regulations initially differed in the conceptual representation of the receptor of interest to be considered in assessing performance. The publication in 200 1 of final regulations in which the NRC adopted standard will permit the continued improvement and refinement of biosphere modeling and analyses activities in support of assessment activities.

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Biosphere Modeling and Analyses in Support of Total System Performance Assessment

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Wu³

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“…In November 1992, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, a participant in the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, issued the report "Preliminary Total System Analysis of a Potential High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain" (Eslinger et al, 1992). This document describes work performed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory as part of the XiV Department's 199 1 Total System Performance Assessment.…”

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“…The CRWMS M&O performed a limited Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA) to show readiness, to test Golder Associates Inc.'s Repository Integration Program (RIP) code, and to evaluate Sandia National Laboratories' (SNL) TSPA-1991 In November 1992, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) issued the report "Preliminary Total System Analysis of a Potential High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain" (Eslinger et al, 1992). This document describes work performed by PNL as part of YMPO's 1991 TSPA.…”

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Site characterization progress report: Yucca Mountain, Nevada, October 1, 1992--March 31, 1993, No. 8

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Preliminary total-system analysis of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Biosphere Modeling and Analyses in Support of Total System Performance Assessment

Biosphere Modeling and Analyses in Support of Total System Performance Assessment

Site characterization progress report: Yucca Mountain, Nevada, October 1, 1992--March 31, 1993, No. 8

Long-term C-14 source term for a high-level waste repository

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