International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 1994 Authors: M. Lin and M. P. Hardy (AAI), and S. Jung (Sandia National Laboratories) The impacts of thermal and seismic loads on the stability of the Exploratory Studies Facility North Ramp at Yucca Mountain were assessed using both empirical and analytical approaches. This paper [...]
Nuclear Waste
ASCE Symposium on High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Seismic Design, San Francisco, California, 19–20 August 1992 Authors: A. M. Richardson (AAI) and T. E. Blejwas (Sandia National Laboratories) Yucca Mountain, the potential site of a repository for high-level radioactive waste, is situated in a region of natural and man-made seismicity. Underground openings excavated at this site [...]
ASCE Convention, Portland, Oregon, 15 April 1990 Authors: M. Hardy (AAI) and G. Hocking (Dames & Moore) Rock mechanics design criteria for temperatures, opening stability, nuclide transport, and deformation of rock masses are essential for investigations into the feasibility and eventual design of high-level nuclear waste repositories. The development of rock mechanics design criteria relies [...]
Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories for the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC04-76DP00789 Authors: M. P. Hardy (AAI) and S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories) A design methodology is presented for assessing drift stability for a potential high-level radioactive waste repository. Excavation stability is required during construction, emplacement, retrieval (if required), and [...]
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, under Contract No. DE-AC04-76DP00789Authors: M. P. Hardy (AAI), S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories), and C. E. Brechtel and R. R. Goodrich (AAI) The Yucca Mountain Project (YMP), managed by the Nevada Operations Office of the U.S. Department of Energy [...]
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, under Contract No. DE-AC04-76DP00789Authors: S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories), M. P. Hardy and M. Lin (AAI) An understanding of the thermal and stress environment in the vicinity of repository openings is important for pre-closure performance considerations and worker health [...]
Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Rock Mechanics, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1979 Authors: M. P. Hardy and C. M. St. John (University of Minnesota), and G. Hocking (Dames & Moore) Geotechnical numerical models capable of predicting the thermomechanical response and groundwater movements around an underground radioactive waste repository are vital to the success of [...]
23rd U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, University of California Berkeley, California, 25–28 August 1982 Authors: C. M. St. John (Consultant), and M. P. Hardy (AAI) The paper discusses an approach to geotechnical monitoring of a geological repository constructed for the purpose of isolation of high-level nuclear waste, and describes the conceptual framework for development of [...]
Prepared for Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC04-76DP00789 Authors: S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories), and M. P. Hardy, R. Goodrich, and M. Lin (AAI) An understanding of the state of stress on faults is important for pre- and post-closure performance considerations for the potential high-level radioactive waste [...]
Prepared for the United States Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project under Contract DE-AC04-76DP00789 Authors: M. P. Hardy (AAI) and S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories) A methodology and preliminary application for designing repository openings to withstand vibratory ground motion is presented. The methodology first establishes the [...]
Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock, Institute of Mechanics, Technical University of Vienna, 18–20 April 1990Authors: L. S. Costin and S. J. Bauer (Sandia National Laboratories), and M. P. Hardy (AAI) The Yucca Mountain Project, managed by the Nevada Operations Office of the [...]
Focus ’93, Site Characterization and Model Validations, Las Vegas, Nevada, 26–29 September 1993 Authors: L. S. Costin (Sandia National Laboratories), and M. P. Hardy and C. E. Brechtel (AAI) Thermomechanical models are being developed to support the design of an Exploratory Studies Facility and a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. These [...]
