Technical bases for Yucca Mountain standards / / Committee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828404203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0-309-17633-6; 1-280-19305-0; 9786610193059; 0-309-58818-9; 0-585-02020-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.72/8962/09793
• Soggetti: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Standards - Nevada - Yucca Mountain; Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Nevada - Yucca Mountain - Safety measures; Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Health aspects - Nevada - Yucca Mountain; Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Environmental aspects - Nevada - Yucca Mountain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH""; ""Elements of the Standard""; ""Protection of the General Public""; ""ASSESSING COMPLIANCE""; ""Physical and Geologic Processes""; ""Exposure Scenarios""; ""HUMAN INTRUSION""; ""IMPLICATIONS OF OUR CONCLUSIONS""; ""Limits of the Scientific Basis""; ""Technology-Based Standards""; ""Administrative Consequences""; ""1 INTRODUCTION ""; ""SCOPE OF THE STUDY""; ""BACKGROUND AND APPROACH""; ""The Repository System""; ""Issues to Be Considered in Approaching the Study""""Large but improbable doses""; ""Demonstration of compliance""; ""Fundamental ; vs. derived standards""; ""Time scale""; ""Choices Affecting the Bases of the Standard""; ""2 PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH ""; ""THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS""; ""General Consensus in Radiation Protection Principles and Standards""; ""THE FORM OF THE STANDARD""; ""ELEMENTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL-RISK STANDARD""; ""What Level of Protection?""; ""Who Is Protected?""; ""For How Long?""; ""PROTECTING THE GENERAL PUBLIC""""PROTECTING THE GLOBAL POPULATION""; ""NEGLIGIBLE INCREMENTAL RISK""; ""PROTECTING LOCAL POPULATIONS""; ""Population-Risk Standard""; ""Spatial Gradient in Risk""; ""PREFERRED FORM OF THE STANDARD""; ""3 ASSESSING COMPLIANCE ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART I: OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT""; ""Reasonable Confidence""; ""Time scale""; ""Probabilistic Analysis of Risk""; ""QUANTITATIVE CALCULATION OF REPOSITORY PERFORMANCE""; ""Elements of Performance Assessment""; ""Conceptual model""; ""Mathematical model""; ""Numerical analysis""; ""Model parameters""; ""Boundary conditions""""Treatment of Uncertainty""; ""Probabilistic modeling""; ""Bounding estimates""; ""Alternative conceptual models""; ""Summary""; ""PATHWAYS AND PROCESSES FOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN""; ""PART II: EARTH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACTORS IN PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN""; ""Transport Among Reservoirs""; ""Release from the waste form""; ""Transport from canisters to the near-field unsaturated zone""; ""Gas phase transport from the unsaturated zone to the atmosphere above Yucca Mountain""; ""Atmospheric circulation leading to dispersal of gaseous radionuclides in the world atmosphere""""Aqueous phase transport from the unsaturated zone to the water table""; ""Gradual and Episodic Natural Modifiers""; ""Climate change""; ""Seismicity""; ""Volcanism""; ""PART III: EXPOSURE SCENARIOS IN PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT""; ""Selection of Exposure Scenarios for Performance Assessment Calculations""; ""Exclusion Zone""; ""4 HUMAN INTRUSION AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTROLS ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""The Consequences of Intrusion""; ""Technical basis""; ""Consequence-based analysis""; ""ADDITIONAL BASES FOR OUR RECOMMENDATION""