Nevada Test Site, ground-water

Information on the interaction of radionuclides with ground-water in deeply-buried, high-level, long-term "waste repositories" is available at only a few locations. One is the OKLO natural reactor in Gabon which has for over 1. 7 billion years retained some of the radionuclides also present in nuclear wastes (5). Another is the Nevada test Site, where radionuclides were first deposited underground on September 19, 1967 during the 1.7 kt... 

Borg, I. Y., Stone, R., Levy, H. B., Ramspott, L. D., "Information Pertinent to the Migration of Radionuclides in Ground Water at the Nevada Test Site," Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-52078, Part 1 "Review and Analysis of Existing Information," (May 25, 1976) ... 

Thordarson, William, Perched ground water in zeolitized-bedded tuff. Rainier Mesa and vicinity, Nevada Test Site, Nevada,... 

Clebsch, Alfred, Jr. Tritium age of ground water at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, C122-C125, in Short Papers in the Geologic and Hydrologic Sciences", U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 424-C, (1961). 

This estimate does not include most ground water cleanup nor cleanup of the Nevada test site, nor is it based on complete information. Not all sites have yet l n characterized. It does not allow calculation of tradeoffs - what is the cost if 1% of waste is left in the tanks versus 5%, and what is the difference in risk for the different levels of cleanup ... 

Kersting, A.B., D.W. Efurd, D.L. Finnegan, D.J. Rokop, D.K. Smith, and J.L. Thompson. 1999. Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada test site. Nature 397 56. 

Waddell, R.K. 1982. Two-dimensional, steady-state model of ground-water flow, Nevada Test Site and vicinity, Nevada-Califomia. U.S. Geol. Surv. Water Resources Investigations Rep. 82-4085. U.S. Geol. Surv., Denver, CO. 

NaCl-CaCl2-MgCl2 system. .. 391-92 Test site, Nevada, and ground-water... 

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