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Yucca Mountain Project |
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EES-1 is involved in a number of aspects related to Yucca Mountain, the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository site. Studies of Yucca Mountain, a potential repository for high-level nuclear waste, follow three principal foci within group EES-1 at LANL. The first of these is the mineralogy of transport pathways, which uses a variety of analytical methods to define the important mineralogic and geochemical variables along potential fracture and rock-matrix transport pathways. The second is the study of alteration history, including the evidence of past reaction and transport at Yucca Mountain integrated with laboratory studies to determine the thermodynamics of low-temperature alteration processes. Third is the study of the kinetics of low-temperature alteration. These three foci are pursued in parallel with a variety of mineralogic and geochemical efforts as part of the sorption studies and dust-inhalation hazard studies conducted for the Yucca Mountain Project. For more information, contact:
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