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State of Nevada

Department of Energy - Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

Additional Yucca Mountain Documents Made Available on NRC’s Licensing Support Network to Facilitate Yucca Mountain Licensing Proceeding [pdf]

The Technical Basis Documents are from the DOE-OCRWM web site and links to those documents are placed here for your convenience. Clicking on these links will take you to OCRWM web site. They describe the processes and primary components of the repository system that DOE have found relevant to the long-term performance of the repository.To return to this web site you will need to use your browsers back arrow.

Technical Basis Document No. 1: Climate and Infiltration Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 2: Unsaturated Zone Flow Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 3: Water Seeping into Drifts Revision 2
Technical Basis Document No. 4: Mechanical Degradation and Seismic Effects Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 5: In-Drift Chemical Environment Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 6: Waste Package and Drip Shield Corrosion Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 7: In-Package Environment and Waste Form Degradation and Solubility Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 8: Colloids Revision 2
Technical Basis Document No. 10: Unsaturated Zone Transport Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 11: Saturated Zone Flow and Transport Revision 2
Technical Basis Document No. 12: Biosphere Transport Revision 1
Technical Basis Document No. 13: Volcanic Events Revision 2
Technical Basis Document No. 14: Low Probability Seismic Events Revision 1
Final Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada
 
 
During years of scientific study at Yucca Mountain, DOE has produced thousands of other technical documents of which you may find many at this page on their web site. DOE document library

Studies being contacted by Lawrence Livermore Lab

LLNL's Yucca Mountain Program (YMP) team is primarily working in the following areas:

The Large Block Test (LBT), used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used a series of tests conducted on a heavily instrumented, room-size block of rock adjacent to the proposed Yucca Mountain site. These tests were to enhance understanding of how thermal loading will affect the coupled thermal-mechanical-hydrological-chemical (TMHC) processes in the near-field environment (NFE).

Environmental Protection Agency:

The National Environmental Policy Act

Below are answers to many questions commonly asked about the repository and EPA's Role: the following are links at the EPA's web site - to return here use your browser's back arrow.

 
 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Pre-licensing activity - Pre-licensing interactions with the DOE are open to participation by the State of Nevada, Indian tribes, and local governments. During the pre-licensing phase, NRC's has four primary responsibilities:

NRC guidance documents

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