Title: Design considerations for the Yucca Mountain Project Site Characterization
Abstract: The Site Characterization Facilities (SCF) to be located in volcanic tuff at Yucca Mountain is a challenge to manage, design, and construct. This challenge is a result of a number of factors: This is a first of a kind facility to be planned, characterized, designed and built under the purview of a US nuclear regulatory agency; Stringent regulations inherited from the nuclear power agencies have been adapted and modified to allow design and construction of a surface/underground laboratory for the qualification of a repository site for the possible future storage of nuclear waste; Detailed interface is required between a number of participants to assure licensability of the SCF integration into a future repository; Stringent design and construction procedures; Stringent Quality Assurance and quality control. The regulations and requirements that flow down to the A/E for development of the SCF design are voluminous and unique to this project. The volume of regulations, constraints, and amount of oversite found on this project has no parallel in private sector engineering.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-12-31
Language: en
Type: article
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