Evaluation of Features, Events, and Processes (FEP) for the Biosphere Model Metadata

Title

• Main Title Evaluation of Features, Events, and Processes (FEP) for the Biosphere Model

Creator

• Author: Wasiolek, M.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Rogers, P.
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
  Contributor Type: Organization
  Contributor Info: USDOE, US Department of Energy (United States)

Publisher

• Name: United States. Department of Energy. Yucca Mountain Project Office.
  Place of Publication: Las Vegas, Nevada
  Additional Info: Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, Nevada (United States)

Date

• Creation: 2004-10-27

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: The purpose of this analysis report is to evaluate and document the inclusion or exclusion of biosphere features, events, and processes (FEPs) with respect to modeling used to support the total system performance assessment (TSPA) for the license application (LA). A screening decision, either ''Included'' or ''Excluded'', is given for each FEP along with the corresponding technical basis for the excluded FEPs and the descriptions of how the included FEPs were incorporated in the biosphere model. This information is required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations at 10 CFR 63.114 (d, e, and f) [DIRS 156605]. The FEPs addressed in this report concern characteristics of the reference biosphere, the receptor, and the environmental transport and receptor exposure pathways for the groundwater and volcanic ash exposure scenarios considered in biosphere modeling. This revision provides the summary of the implementation of included FEPs in TSPA-LA, (i.e., how the FEP is included); for excluded FEPs, this analysis provides the technical basis for exclusion from TSPA-LA (i.e., why the FEP is excluded). This report is one of the 10 documents constituting the biosphere model documentation suite. A graphical representation of the documentation hierarchy for the biosphere model is presented in Figure 1-1. This figure shows the interrelationships among the products (i.e., analysis and model reports) developed for biosphere modeling. The ''Biosphere Model Report'' describes in detail the biosphere conceptual model and mathematical model. The input parameter reports shown to the right of the ''Biosphere Model Report'' contain detailed descriptions of the model input parameters and their development. Outputs from these six reports are used in the ''Nominal Performance Biosphere Dose Conversion Factor Analysis and Disruptive Event Biosphere Dose Conversion Factor Analysis'' to generate the biosphere dose conversion factors (BDCFs), which are input parameters for the TSPA-LA model. The ''Biosphere Dose Conversion Factor Importance and Sensitivity Analysis'' analyzes the output of these two BDCF reports.
• Physical Description: 128 pages

Subject

• Keyword: License Applications
• Keyword: Documentation
• Keyword: Implementation
• Keyword: Biosphere
• Keyword: Sensitivity
• Keyword: Mathematical Models
• STI Subject Categories: 54 Environmental Sciences
• Keyword: Regulations
• Keyword: Simulation
• Keyword: Environmental Transport
• Keyword: Evaluation
• Keyword: Performance

Source

• Other Information: PBD: 27 Oct 2004

Collection

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

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: ANL-MGR-MD-000011, REV 04
• Grant Number: AC28-01RW12101
• DOI: 10.2172/839516
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 839516
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc787005

Note

• Display Note: OSTI as DE00839516