Uncertainty underground : Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste / / edited by Allison M. Macfarlane and Rodney C. Ewing.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 431 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.