TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macfarlane,Allison
AU  - Ewing,Rodney C
TI  - Uncertainty underground : Yucca Mountain and the nation`s high-level nuclear waste 
SN  - 9780262633321
AV  - TD898.12.N3 U5226 2006
U1  - 363.72890979334 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
KW  - Nevada
KW  - Yucca Mountain
KW  - Radioactive waste sites
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Geology
KW  - Yucca Mountain Region
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton -- Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. Murphy -- Performance assessment : what is it and why is it done? / Chris Whipple -- Performance assessments : are they necessary or sufficient? / Rodney C. Ewing -- Technical policy decision making in siting a high-level nuclear waste repository / Allison M. Macfarlane -- The mountain matters / David Applegate -- Volcanism : the continuing saga / Bruce M. Crowe ... [et al.] -- Climate change at Yucca Mountain : lessons from earth history / MaryLynn Musgrove and Daniel P. Schrag -- Hot upwelling water : did it really invade Yucca Mountain? / Nicholas S.F. Wilson and Jean S. Cline -- Water and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone / June Fabryka-Martin ... [et al.] -- Colloidal transport of radionuclides / Annie B. Kersting -- Contaminant transport in the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain / Lynn W. Belhar -- Thermohydrologic effects and interactions / G.S. Bodvarsson -- The near field at Yucca Mountain : effects of coupled processes on nuclear water isolation / William M. Murphy -- Waste package corrosion / David W. Shoesmith -- Drip shield and backfill / David Stahl -- Zircaloy cladding / Eric R. Siegmann -- Spent fuel / Jordi Bruno and Esther Cera -- Glass / Werner Lutze -- Storing waste in ceramic / WiIliam L. Bourcier and Kurt Sickafus -- The path to Yucca Mountain and beyond / Luther J. Carter -- Uncertainty, models, and the way forward in nuclear waste disposal / Allison M. Macfarlane
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