T137 Yucca Mountain Update: Recent Advances from Scientific Investigations of the Unsaturated Zone (Posters)

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  GEOCHEMISTRY OF PORE WATER FROM DENSELY WELDED TOPOPAH SPRING TUFF AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  Zell E. Peterman, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Brian D. Marshall, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  39823 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  MATRIX PERMEABILITIES OF FAULTED NONWELDED TUFFS
  Cynthia L. Dinwiddie, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Randall W. Fedors, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and David A. Ferrill, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Kelly Keighley Bradbury, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT
  41349 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PORE WATER FROM BOREHOLES USW SD-6 AND USW WT-24, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  I.C. Yang, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Z.E. Peterman, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and K.M. Scofield, S.M. Stoller Corp., c/o U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  41575 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATIONS OF FAULTED BISHOP TUFF: ANALOG FOR NON-WELDED PAINTBRUSH TUFF, YUCCA MOUNTAIN
  Kelly K. Bradbury, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT and James P. Evans, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT
  42101 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  LIMITATIONS OF THE U-PB METHOD WHEN DATING URANIFEROUS OPALS DEPOSITED IN OPEN CAVITIES: IMPLICATION FOR THE THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN
  Sergey E. Pashenko, Institute of Chemical Kinetic and Combustion, Novosibirsk, N/A and Yuri V. Dublyansky, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Novosibirsk, N/A
  42389 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  U-SERIES ISOTOPES, WATER/ROCK INTERACTION, AND EVIDENCE OF UNSATURATED-ZONE FLOW AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  James B. Paces, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Leonid A. Neymark, S.M Stoller Corp. c/o U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  42697 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  EFFECTS OF ROCK MECHANICAL DEGRADATION ON SEEPAGE INTO DRIFTS
  Guomin Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and Chin-Fu Tsang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
  42959 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  THERMAL LOADING AT A POTENTIAL REPOSITORY: MODELING THE THERMAL-HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE WITHIN THE UNSATURATED ZONE AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  C. Haukwa, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and Y.-S. Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and G.S. Bodvarsson, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
  42999 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION OF DISSOLUTION AND PRECIPITATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR FRACTURE SEALING AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  T.J. Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and P.F. Dobson, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and E.L. Sonnenthal, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and N. Spycher, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and J.A. Apps, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
  43164 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  USING PORE-WATER CHLORIDE DATA TO CALIBRATE THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN UNSATURATED ZONE FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODEL
  J. Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and E.L. Sonnenthal, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA and G.S. Bodvarsson, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA
  43211 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  MOISTURE OBSERVATIONS IN SEALED TUNNELS AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA
  Neil Coleman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC and James Winterle, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Hans Arlt, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC and Cynthia Dinwiddie, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Randall Fedors, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX
  44107 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  "ONE-ON" STYLE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE BARRIER PERFORMANCE OF THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY
  Sunil Mehta, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV and Kearn P. Lee, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV and S. David Sevougian, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV and George J. Saulnier, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV and Donald A. Kalinich, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV and Jerry A. McNeish, Framatome ANP DE&S, Inc, Las Vegas, NV
  45464 (Technical Sessions)