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Title

  • Main Title Radionuclide migration studies at the Nevada Test Site

Creator

  • Author: Thompson, J. L.
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: New Mexico
    Additional Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1989-12-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The United States government routinely tests nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in southern Nevada. A significant amount of radioactive material exists underground at the NTS with no containers or engineered barriers to inhibit its subsequent migration. The Department of Energy has sponsored for many years a research program on radionuclide movement in the geologic media at this location. Goals of this research program are to measure the extent of movement of radionuclides away from underground explosion sites and to determine the mechanisms by which such movement occurs. This program has acquired significance in another aspect of nuclear waste management because of the Yucca Mountain Project. Yucca Mountain at the NTS is being intensively studied as the possible site for a mined repository for high level nuclear waste. The NTS provides a unique setting for field studies concerning radionuclide migration; there is the potential for greatly increasing our knowledge of the behavior of radioactive materials in volcanogenic media. This review summarizes some of the significant findings made under this research program at the NTS and identifies reports in which the details of the research may be found. 36 refs., 4 figs.
  • Physical Description: 12 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Nuclear Explosions
  • Keyword: Underground Explosions
  • Keyword: Radionuclide Migration
  • STI Subject Categories: 05 Nuclear Fuels
  • Keyword: Nevada Test Site
  • Keyword: Site Characterization
  • Keyword: Tuff
  • Keyword: Yucca Mountain
  • Keyword: Underground Disposal
  • Keyword: High-Level Radioactive Wastes
  • Keyword: Radioactive Waste Management
  • Keyword: Yucca Mountain Project

Source

  • Conference: PACIFICHEM `89: international chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI (United States), 17-22 Dec 1989

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE90003169
  • Report No.: LA-UR--89-3701
  • Report No.: CONF-891206--4
  • Grant Number: W-7405-ENG-36
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 137560
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc627924

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE90003169
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