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Titolo: | 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 |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.72/8962/09793 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Technical bases for Yucca Mountain standards |
ISBN: | 0-309-17633-6 |
1-280-19305-0 | |
9786610193059 | |
0-309-58818-9 | |
0-585-02020-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828404203321 |
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