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Alternative Assessments of the Performance of the Yucca Mountain Candidate HLW Repository
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Abstract
This paper summarizes some of the most recent total system performance assessment (TSPA) work supported by EPRI for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In Part I of the paper, (standard) TSPA analyses are presented. In Part II examples of two types of analyses that augment standard TSPAs are provided that suggest: (1) many components of the Yucca Mountain system contribute to overall hazard reduction; and (2) the biosphere dose conversions used, based on reasonably maximizing assumptions about future human behavior, provide a reasonable upper bound. These additional analyses should provide further confidence when considering more (standard) TSPA analyses.
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