Paper Info
Title
Direct releases to the surface and associated complementary cumulative distribution functions in the 1996 performance assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: direct brine release
Abstract
The following topics related to the treatment of direct brine releases to the surface environment in the 1996 performance assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are presented: (i) mathematical description of models; (ii) uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results arising from subjective (i.e. epistemic) uncertainty for individual releases; (iii) construction of complementary cumulative distribution functions (CCDFs) arising from stochastic (i.e, aleatory) uncertainty; and (iv) uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results for CCDFs. The presented analyses indicate that direct brine releases do not constitute a serious threat to the effectiveness of the WIPP as a disposal facility fur transuranic waste. Even when the effects of uncertain analysis inputs are taken into account, the CCDFs for direct brine releases fall substantially to the ten of the boundary line specified in the US Environmental Protection Agencys standard for the geologic disposal of radioactive waste (40 CFR 191, 40 CFR 194). Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00038-7
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
aleatory uncertainty,compliance certification application,direct brine release,epistemic uncertainty,Latin hypercube sampling,Monte Carlo,performance assessment,radioactive waste,risk,stochastic uncertainty,subjective uncertainty,transuranic waste,Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-3
0951-8320
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. M. Stoelzel100.34
D. G. O'Brien200.34
J. W. Garner35631.01
Jon Helton440988.62
Jay D. Johnson52313.64
L. N. Smith62313.64