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Yucca
Mountain: The Making of an Underground
Laboratory
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23mb, 12:32
The following are brief excerpts
from videos on topics related to
Yucca Mountain.
Why Yucca Mountain
Safe Passage: An Overview of Plans
for the Railroad to Yucca Mountain
Climate:
Hydrology:
Drift Scale Heater Test:
After four years of heating more than
20,000 cubic meters of rock to the boiling
point of water, scientists at the Yucca
Mountain Project turned off the heaters
in the drift scale heater test on January
14, 2002.
Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel
The
following are brief excerpts from
videotapes on topics related to transportation
of nuclear waste.
The German laboratory BAM (Federal
Institute for Materials Research
and Testing) conducted a full-scale
test on a CASTOR spent nuclear
fuel rail cask. The cask was placed
next to a rail tank car filled
with propane. Fuel oil was then ignited
beneath the rail car. The CASTOR
cask survived the fire and explosion.
Propane
Tank Explosion Test Video - 8 MB,
Total Running Time: 2:53
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