December 2001

Volume 53    Issue 12

Evaluation of seepage into an underground opening using small-scale field experiments, Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Mining Engineering , 2001, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 21-24
Trautz, R.C.; Wang, J.S.Y.

The safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste is a pressing issue now facing the US Department of Energy (DOE), the nuclear power industry, federal, state and local regulators, and society as a whole. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended, requires that the DOE undertake site-characterization activities at Yucca Mountain, NV. Site characterization is providing information and the data required to evaluate a proposed action to construct, operate, monitor and eventually close a geologic repository containing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste (DOE, 1998).

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