LEADER 05325nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910456095903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-19305-0 010 $a9786610193059 010 $a0-309-58818-9 010 $a0-585-02020-5 035 $a(CKB)110986584751634 035 $a(EBL)3376172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000256357 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204028 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000256357 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219369 035 $a(PQKB)11360417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3376172 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3376172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10055166 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL19305 035 $a(OCoLC)923261737 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110986584751634 100 $a19950428d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTechnical bases for Yucca Mountain standards$b[electronic resource] /$fCommittee on Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academy Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-309-05289-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-205). 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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?"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""ADDITIONAL BASES FOR OUR RECOMMENDATION"" 606 $aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xStandards$zNevada$zYucca Mountain 606 $aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$zNevada$zYucca Mountain$xSafety measures 606 $aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xHealth aspects$zNevada$zYucca Mountain 606 $aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xEnvironmental aspects$zNevada$zYucca Mountain 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xStandards 615 0$aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xSafety measures. 615 0$aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xHealth aspects 615 0$aRadioactive waste disposal in the ground$xEnvironmental aspects 676 $a363.72/8962/09793 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456095903321 996 $aTechnical bases for Yucca Mountain standards$92274650 997 $aUNINA