6 Yucca Mountain Technical Limits Statutory limit needs to be changed to take advantage of closed fuel cycles Dose rate is the basis for licensing; peak dose occurs >100,000 years –Dominated by major actinides (from plutonium and uranium decay) Thermal engineering limits have been imposed to increase the reliability of prediction of repository performance over the long term Container temperature limit (short term fission product) Drift wall temperature limit (fission products and transuranics) Between drifts rock temperature limit (transuranics)
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