Hazard area and probability of volcanic disruption of the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA

Autor:	Deborah L. Keenan, Chih-Hsiang Ho, Eugene I. Smith
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Dike geography geography.geographical_feature_category media_common.quotation_subject Radioactive waste Hazard High-level waste Footprint Volcano Mining engineering Geochemistry and Petrology Conceptual model Transportation industry Geology media_common
Zdroj:	Bulletin of Volcanology. 69:117-123
ISSN:	1432-0819 0258-8900
Popis:	Models that calculate the probability that a new volcano or a dike from a nearby eruption will intersect the footprint of the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository are generalized based on a conceptual model developed for the space transportation industry. The proposed hazard area, defined such that every new eruption that occurs there will disrupt the repository, plays a fundamental role in developing probability models. This hazard area is used not only to hedge the uncertainties in predicting patterns of future volcanic activity, but also to account for the characteristics of a new eruption during the post-closure performance period of an underground geologic repository. The paper discusses the advantages of probability comparisons, capabilities of conservativeness measurements and expert-elicitation on model parameters, and the implications to the proposed repository.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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