Final report of the Peña Blanca natural analogue project [electronic resource].
- Published
- Las Vegas, Nev. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, 2016.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy - Physical Description
- 167 pages : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- The Peña Blanca region, 50 km north of Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, México, was a target of uranium exploration and mining by the Mexican government. After mining ceased in 1981, researchers became interested in this region as a study area for subsurface uranium migration with relevance to geologic disposal of nuclear waste. Many studies related to this concept were conducted at the Nopal I mine site located on a cuesta (hill) of the Sierra Peña Blanca. This site has geologic, tectonic, hydrologic, and geochemical similarities to Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a formerly proposed site for a high-level nuclear-waste repository in the unsaturated zone. The U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE), Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), sponsored studies at Nopal I in the 1990s and supported the drilling of three research wells – PB1, PB2, and PB3 – at the site in 2003. Beginning in 2004, the Peña Blanca Natural Analogue Project was undertaken by U.S. DOE, OCRWM to develop a three-dimensional conceptual model of the transport of uranium and its radiogenic daughter products at the Nopal I site.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:la-ur--16-27630
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
10/04/2016.
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Schön S. Levy; Steven Joel Goldstein; Amr I. Abdel-Fattah; Ronald S. Amato; Elizabeth Anthony; Paul Cook; Patrick F. Dobson; Mostafa Fayek; Diana French; Rodrigo de Garza; Teamrat Ghezzehei; Philip C. Goodell; Steven H. Harder; Teh-Lung Ku; Shangde Luo; Michael Tildon Murrell; Deborah E. Norman; Andrew J. Nunn; Ronald Oliver; Katrina Pekar-Carpenter; Michael Sean Rearick; Minghua Ren; Ignacio Reyes-Cortes; Jose Alfredo Pineda; George Saulnier; Sowmitri Tarimala; John Walton. - Funding Information
- AC52-06NA25396
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