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Understanding the Containment and Isolation Potential of Yucca Mountain; The Coupled Non-Equilibrium Dynamical Systems Perspective

Understanding the Containment and Isolation Potential of Yucca Mountain; The Coupled Non-Equilibrium Dynamical Systems Perspective

          
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The book is concerned with the geology and hydrogeology of Yucca Mountain, a potential site to host an underground repository intended for the irretrievable long-term containment and isolation from the biosphere of 70 000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel. This amount represents the 2012 accumulation of both the spent fuel from more than one hundred commercial reactors in the U.S. and the high-level radioactive waste from defense (military) programs. This book is intended for the wide dissemination of scientific information pertaining to the actual containment and isolation potential of the Yucca Mountain site amongst earth scientists, decision-makers, and the lay public. Hopefully, it will foster a strong, factual and therefore rational foundation for the decision making process.

The book demonstrates that a multitude of indisputable lines of evidence, derived from the results of both the various geophysical measurements and the extensive analyses of the local geological record, indicate this mountain is situated in a region profoundly affected by the isostatically uncompensated (rising) and supra solidus (melting) sub-lithosphere mantle. This mantle acts therefore as a practically inexhaustible source of energy (potential gravitational, strain, and thermal) and matter (gaseous phases and basalt magma) being introduced into the corresponding geological system. As a consequence of that, it has the direct effect of causing long-term evolution of this system to proceed with the involvement of sequent evolutionary loops, each consisting of a long period of accumulations of various forms of energy and matter followed by a fairly brief period of releasing the accumulated energy and matter. It is in this manner that Yucca Mountain inevitably, at times, becomes what it actually represents: a mountain underlain by a steadily maturing thermodynamic "bomb". Although innate forms of this release evolve, the essential character remains the same in that it amounts to a diffusive outward transfer of the accumulated endogenic energy and matter, including the transformation and dispersion thereof into various kinds of mechanical and kinetic work, which could lead to catastrophic (life-endangering) releases of the entombed radioactivity directly into the atmosphere.

In a nutshell, this book grapples with a question that has extraordinary moral and many other implications: Does the proposed repository represent a potential peril to future generations that is without precedence in the entire history of our civilization? On the one hand, the main purpose of this book is to demonstrate, at long last, that the indisputable facts allow for concluding the subject mountain is neither suitable nor licensable as a site of the proposed repository. On the other hand, the purpose is also to provide a fact-based foundation for ascertaining the wisdom of the anticipated attempts in the future, by both the nuclear industry and the newly constituted Donald Trump administration, to resurrect the Yucca Mountain Project, one way or the other.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781683487210
  • Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Page Publishing, Inc.
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 564
  • Spine Width: 39 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1683487214
  • Publisher Date: 25 Apr 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1740 gr


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