Uncertainty underground  Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Allison M. Macfarlane and Rodney C. Ewing. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  MIT Press,  c2006. 
 - xxiii, 431 p. :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton -- Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. Murphy -- Performance assessment : what is it and why is it done? / Chris Whipple -- Performance assessments : are they necessary or sufficient? / Rodney C. Ewing -- Technical policy decision making in siting a high-level nuclear waste repository / Allison M. Macfarlane -- The mountain matters / David Applegate -- Volcanism : the continuing saga / Bruce M. Crowe ... [et al.] -- Climate change at Yucca Mountain : lessons from earth history / MaryLynn Musgrove and Daniel P. Schrag -- Hot upwelling water : did it really invade Yucca Mountain? / Nicholas S.F. Wilson and Jean S. Cline -- Water and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone / June Fabryka-Martin ... [et al.] -- Colloidal transport of radionuclides / Annie B. Kersting -- Contaminant transport in the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain / Lynn W. Belhar -- Thermohydrologic effects and interactions / G.S. Bodvarsson -- The near field at Yucca Mountain : effects of coupled processes on nuclear water isolation / William M. Murphy -- Waste package corrosion / David W. Shoesmith -- Drip shield and backfill / David Stahl -- Zircaloy cladding / Eric R. Siegmann -- Spent fuel / Jordi Bruno and Esther Cera -- Glass / Werner Lutze -- Storing waste in ceramic / WiIliam L. Bourcier and Kurt Sickafus -- The path to Yucca Mountain and beyond / Luther J. Carter -- Uncertainty, models, and the way forward in nuclear waste disposal / Allison M. Macfarlane. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA635841  bnb 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Nevada--Yucca Mountain.<br/>Radioactive waste sites--Evaluation.--Nevada--Yucca Mountain<br/>Geology--Nevada--Yucca Mountain Region.<br/>Radioactive waste disposal--Government policy--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TD898.12.N3  / U5226 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.72/890979334