Nye County's
NWRPO
works to ensure the health
and safety of
current and future residents affected
by DOE activities
to transport, store,
and dispose of
highly radioactive waste in and
through the
County.
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NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY PROJECT OFFICE |
Welcome
to the
Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Project Office
(NWRPO) website. The purpose of this site is to
provide the public with information about Nye
County's involvement with the Yucca Mountain Project
(YMP) and YMP issues in general.
For
more
than two
decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
has conducted an extensive scientific effort to
determine whether Yucca Mountain, Nevada is a
suitable site for a deep geologic (underground)
repository to dispose of the nation's high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SNF).
Nye
County, Nevada is the single local jurisdiction
selected by the federal government to host the
repository. The Nye County Board of
Commissioners established the NWRPO as Nye County's
staff agency to ensure County policies and actions
regarding nuclear waste activities are conducted to
protect the health, welfare, and economic well-being
of its residents and environment, and to plan for
and mitigate possible impacts of the repository, if
it is located in Nye County.
The
Nye County NWRPO facility is located in Pahrump,
Nevada.
What's New?
NYE COUNTY SUBMITS CONTENTIONS TO THE NRC
FOR THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN LICENSING PROCEEDINGS |
December 19, 2008
The Nye County Nevada Nuclear Waste
Repository Project Office (NWRPO) has
submitted seven contentions to the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for
the Yucca Mountain licensing
proceedings. Two of these are joint
contentions with Esmeralda, Mineral,
Churchill, Lander and Inyo (CA)
Counties.
In June 2008, The Department of Energy
(DOE) submitted a license application to
the NRC to allow construction of the
Yucca Mountain geologic repository in
Nye County. In September, 2008 the
NRC accepted DOE’s License Application
for review.
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The NRC’s regulations allow interested
parties to participate in the Licensing
Process and these potential parties must
submit any contentions by December 22, 2008..
A
press release and
summary of the seven
contentions and a full text version of the
document
"Nye
County, Nevada Petition to Intervene and
Contentions"
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PHASE VI EARLY WARNING DRILLING PROGRAM
UNDERWAY |
Phase VI of the NWRPO’s
Early Warning Drilling Program (EWDP)
began June 9, 2008 with borehole
NC-EWDP-4PC (see
location map).
In addition to 4PC, Phase VI of the
EWDP includes boreholes 4PD, 2P, 33PA, and
8P. These boreholes will be drilled by
Drill Tech, Inc., of Chino Valley,
Arizona. Scientific objectives for
each borehole are
listed below:
NC-EWDP-4PC and -4PD
This single- or
dual-piezometer completed borehole will
provide information on the hydrogeology
of this site. This information will be
used in preparation for the drilling of
a larger well capable of pumping high
volumes (>1,000 gallons per minute) for extended
periods of time, in support of a
large-scale pumping test. As this
borehole will be drilled to 2,000 feet,
it will provide new geologic information
below ~850 feet. Geochemical data from
water samples taken from this well will
contribute to the spatial
characterization of
arsenic
concentrations in local
area groundwater.
4PC Update: Due to problems
encountered during drilling (including
the detachment of a casing shoe in the
borehole), 4PC was abandoned on July
10, 2008.
4PD Update: Drilling operations for
a replacement well (4PD) commenced on
July 12, 2008. Well 4PD is
located approximately 20 feet east of 4PC, and
will be completed as a
large-diameter multiple-screen
monitoring well. Drilling and reaming
activities at 4PD were completed on
October 7, 2008 at a depth of 1,860
feet. Completion activities began
October 8, 2008 with the installation of
steel well casing.
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4PD is planned to have 6
screened intervals. Isolated pump
tests, geochemical analysis, and other
monitoring activities will be conducted in
each screened interval following well development activities.
NC-EWDP-2P
This dual-completion piezometer will
provide information on the upper
alluvial aquifer zone(s). The existing
well at this location (2DB) was not
completed in these zones, but was
drilled into the Paleozoic
Carbonate Aquifer, which has a significant
upward gradient. The new well should
contribute to the understanding of the
relationship between the Paleozoic and upper
aquifers. NC-EWDP-2DB will be completed
under a cooperative program between Inyo and
Nye Counties.
NC-EWDP-33PA
Exploratory borehole, completed as a dual,
nested piezometer well. This
borehole
will be drilled to approximately 2,000 ft. ,
and
will provide information on deeper units at
this location (previous borehole [33P,
drilled by the DOE] was only drilled to ~650
ft), and will help contribute to our
understanding of the geologic framework and
hydrology of the area south of the Highway
95 Fault, and south of the terminus of the
volcanic units.
NC-EWDP-8P
Exploratory borehole, completed as a dual,
nested piezometer. Borehole is sited on a
magnetic anomaly, probably buried basalt, at
the approximate intersection of two major
water controlling structures, namely the
Gravity Fault and the Rock Valley Fault.
Also, no EWDP data exist east of Highway
373. |
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Contact
Darrell Lacy
Department Director
1210 E. Basin Rd., Ste 6
Pahrump, NV 89060
Ph: (775) 727-7727
Fax: (775) 727-7919
Hours
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday |
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