PREDICTED GAS-PHASE MOVEMENT OF C-14 FROM A RADIOACTIVE-WASTE REPOSITORY

Authors
ROSS B AMTER S LU N
Citation
B. Ross et al., PREDICTED GAS-PHASE MOVEMENT OF C-14 FROM A RADIOACTIVE-WASTE REPOSITORY, Radioactive waste management and the nuclear fuel cycle, 19(1-3), 1994, pp. 97-106
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Engineering, Environmental
Journal title
Radioactive waste management and the nuclear fuel cycle → ACNP
ISSN journal
07395876
Volume
19
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
97 - 106
Database
ISI
SICI code
0739-5876(1994)19:1-3<97:PGMOCF>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The migration of radioactive CO-14(2) gas to the atmosphere is a poten tially important mechanism for the release of radioactivity from the p otential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Finite-di fference computer simulations of gas circulation within Yucca Mountain suggest that the travel time of C-14 gas from a hot repository to the atmosphere may be less than 10,000 yr.