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Erschienen in: Hydrogeology Journal 3/2010

01.05.2010 | Report

Potential contaminant transport in the regional Carbonate Aquifer beneath Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA

verfasst von: John Bredehoeft, Michael King

Erschienen in: Hydrogeology Journal | Ausgabe 3/2010

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Abstract

Yucca Mountain, Nevada is the site of the proposed US geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The repository is to be a mine, sited approximately 300 m below the crest of the mountain, in a sequence of variably welded and fractured mid-Miocene rhylolite tuffs, in the unsaturated zone, approximately 300 m above the water table. Beneath the proposed repository, at a depth of 2 km, is a thick sequence of Paleozoic carbonate rocks that contain the highly transmissive Lower Carbonate Aquifer. In the area of Yucca Mountain the Carbonate Aquifer integrates groundwater flow from north of the mountain, through the Amargosa Valley, through the Funeral Mountains to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California where the groundwater discharges in a set of large springs. Data that describe the Carbonate Aquifer suggest a concept for flow through the aquifer, and based upon the conceptual model, a one-layer numerical model was constructed to simulate groundwater flow in the Carbonate Aquifer. Advective transport analyses suggest that the predicted travel time of a particle from Yucca Mountain to Death Valley through the Carbonate Aquifer might be as short as 100 years to as long 2,000 years, depending upon the porosity.

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Metadaten
Titel
Potential contaminant transport in the regional Carbonate Aquifer beneath Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA
verfasst von
John Bredehoeft
Michael King
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2010
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Hydrogeology Journal / Ausgabe 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1431-2174
Elektronische ISSN: 1435-0157
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-009-0550-z

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