Comment Response on the Final Report: Peer Review of the Total System Performance Assessment–Viability Assessment (TSPA-VA)
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Front Matter
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. MAIN FINDINGS 1.1 RELIABILITY OF THE TSPA-VA RESULTS 1.2 ADVANCES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TSPA-VA ANALYSIS 1.3 KEY ROLE OF THE WASTE PACKAGE 1.4 KEY ROLE OF INFILTRATION AND SEEPS ANALYSIS 1.5 POTENTIALLY NON-CONSERVATIVE ASPECTS OF THE ANALYSIS 1.6 POTENTIALLY CONSERVATIVE ASPECTS OF THE ANALYSIS 1.6.1 Transport Through Penetrations in Waste Package 1.6.2 Retention of Radionuclides in Spent Fuel Alternation Products 1.6.3 Potential Sorption of Technetium and Iodine 1.7 POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT BUT OMITTED PROCESSES 1.8 DATA NEEDS 1.9 TESTING MODELS 1.10 INSIGHTS FROM THE TSPA-VA 2.1 METHODOLOGY 2.2 COMPLEXITIES OF THE SYSTEM AND OF ITS COMPONENTS 2.3 MANAGING COMPLEXITIES AND COMPONENT MODEL LIMITATIONS 2.4 OVERALL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE TSPA-VA METHODOLOGY 3.1 THE UNSATURATED ZONE UNDER INITIAL CONDITIONS 3.2 THERMOHYDROLOGY 3.3 NEAR-FIELD GEOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT 3.4 WASTE PACKAGE DEGRADATION 3.5 THE ROLE OF FUEL CLADDING 3.6 WASTE FORM DEGRADATION 3.7 RADIONUCLIDE MOBILIZATION 3.8 UNSATURATED ZONE TRANSPORT 3.9 SATURATED ZONE FLOW AND TRANSPORT 3.10 BIOSPHERE 3.11 EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANISM, CRITICALITY, HUMAN INTRUSION, AND CLIMATE CHANGE 4.1 MODELS OF INCOMING GAS, WATER, AND COLLOIDS 4.2 MODELING OF IN-DRIFT GAS 4.3 MODELING OF IN-DRIFT WATER/SOLID CHEMISTRY 5.1 DOCUMENTS CITED 5.2 COMMUNICATIONS 5.3 CODES, STANDARDS, AND REGULATIONS