Author: John Duane Gibson
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Category : Faults (Geology)
Languages : en
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Midway Valley, located at the eastern base of Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada, is the preferred location of the surface facilities for the potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. One goal in siting these surface facilities is to avoid faults that could produce relative displacements in excess of 5 cm in the foundations of the waste-handling buildings. This study reviews existing geologic and geophysical data that can be used to assess the potential for surface fault rupture within Midway Valley.
Summary and Evaluation of Existing Geological and Geophysical Data Near Prospective Surface Facilities in Midway Valley, Yucca Mountain Project, Nye County, Nevada
Author: John Duane Gibson
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Category : Faults (Geology)
Languages : en
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Midway Valley, located at the eastern base of Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada, is the preferred location of the surface facilities for the potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. One goal in siting these surface facilities is to avoid faults that could produce relative displacements in excess of 5 cm in the foundations of the waste-handling buildings. This study reviews existing geologic and geophysical data that can be used to assess the potential for surface fault rupture within Midway Valley.
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Category : Faults (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Midway Valley, located at the eastern base of Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada, is the preferred location of the surface facilities for the potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. One goal in siting these surface facilities is to avoid faults that could produce relative displacements in excess of 5 cm in the foundations of the waste-handling buildings. This study reviews existing geologic and geophysical data that can be used to assess the potential for surface fault rupture within Midway Valley.
Summary and Evaluation of Existing Geological and Geophysical Data Near Prospective Surface Facilities in Midway Valley, Yucca Mountain Project, Nye County, Nevada ; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Midway Valley, located at the eastern base of the Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada, is the preferred location of the surface facilities for the potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. One goal in siting these surface facilities is to avoid faults that could produce relative displacements in excess of 5 cm in the foundations of the waste-handling buildings. This study reviews existing geologic and geophysical data that can be used to assess the potential for surface fault rupture within Midway Valley. Dominant tectonic features in Midway Valley are north-trending, westward-dipping normal faults along the margins of the valley: the Bow Ridge fault to the west and the Paintbrush Canyon fault to the east. Published estimates of average Quaternary slip rates for these faults are very low but the age of most recent displacement and the amount of displacement per event are largely unknown. Surface mapping and interpretive cross sections, based on limited drillhole and geophysical data, suggest that additional normal faults, including the postulated Midway Valley fault, may exist beneath the Quaternary/Tertiary fill within the valley. Existing data, however, are inadequate to determine the location, recency, and geometry of this faulting. To confidently assess the potential for significant Quaternary faulting in Midway Valley, additional data are needed that define the stratigraphy and structure of the strata beneath the valley, characterize the Quaternary soils and surfaces, and establish the age of faulting. The use of new and improved geophysical techniques, combined with a drilling program, offers the greatest potential for resolving subsurface structure in the valley. Mapping of surficial geologic units and logging of soil pits and trenches within these units must be completed, using accepted state-of-the-art practices supported by multiple quantitative numerical and relative age-dating techniques.
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Midway Valley, located at the eastern base of the Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada, is the preferred location of the surface facilities for the potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. One goal in siting these surface facilities is to avoid faults that could produce relative displacements in excess of 5 cm in the foundations of the waste-handling buildings. This study reviews existing geologic and geophysical data that can be used to assess the potential for surface fault rupture within Midway Valley. Dominant tectonic features in Midway Valley are north-trending, westward-dipping normal faults along the margins of the valley: the Bow Ridge fault to the west and the Paintbrush Canyon fault to the east. Published estimates of average Quaternary slip rates for these faults are very low but the age of most recent displacement and the amount of displacement per event are largely unknown. Surface mapping and interpretive cross sections, based on limited drillhole and geophysical data, suggest that additional normal faults, including the postulated Midway Valley fault, may exist beneath the Quaternary/Tertiary fill within the valley. Existing data, however, are inadequate to determine the location, recency, and geometry of this faulting. To confidently assess the potential for significant Quaternary faulting in Midway Valley, additional data are needed that define the stratigraphy and structure of the strata beneath the valley, characterize the Quaternary soils and surfaces, and establish the age of faulting. The use of new and improved geophysical techniques, combined with a drilling program, offers the greatest potential for resolving subsurface structure in the valley. Mapping of surficial geologic units and logging of soil pits and trenches within these units must be completed, using accepted state-of-the-art practices supported by multiple quantitative numerical and relative age-dating techniques.
The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, Southern Nevada and California
Author: John S. Stuckless
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711991
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711991
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County -- Nevada Rail Transportation Corridor; and Rail Alignment for the Construction and Operation of a Railroad in Nevada to a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nye County
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Geologic Repository for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Preliminary Mapping of Surficial Geology of Midway Valley Yucca Mountain Project, Nye County, Nevada ; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project
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Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The tectonics program for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada must evaluate the potential for surface faulting beneath the prospective surface facilities. To help meet this goal, Quaternary surficial mapping studies and photolineament analyses were conducted to provide data for evaluating the location, recency, and style of faulting with Midway Valley at the eastern base of Yucca Mountain, the preferred location of these surface facilities. This interim report presents the preliminary results of this work.
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Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The tectonics program for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada must evaluate the potential for surface faulting beneath the prospective surface facilities. To help meet this goal, Quaternary surficial mapping studies and photolineament analyses were conducted to provide data for evaluating the location, recency, and style of faulting with Midway Valley at the eastern base of Yucca Mountain, the preferred location of these surface facilities. This interim report presents the preliminary results of this work.
Progress Report on the Scientific Investigation Program for the Nevada Yucca Mountain Site
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Site Characterization Progress Report
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Yucca Mountain Project
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Geological and Geophysical Evidence of Structures in Northwest-trending Washes, Yucca Mountain, Southern Nevada and Their Possible Significance to a Nuclear Waste Repository in the Unsaturated Zone
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Category : Nuclear waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear waste disposal in the ground
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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