Flow and Transport through a Fault Embedded in Fractured Rock
Rohit Salve, Hui-Hai Liu, Paul Cook, Atlantis Czarnomski, and Joseph S.Y. Wang
Contact: Rohit Salve, 510/486-6416, r_salve@lbl.gov
Research Objectives
The overall objective of this investigation is to study flow and transport through a 20 m vertical section of a fault located in the fractured welded tuff of the Topopah Spring welded tuff unit at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (Figure 1), the proposed site for a high-level nuclear waste geologic repository.
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 Location of the test bed between the Cross Drift and Main Drift in the Exploratory Studies Facility. Shaded plane is located along presumed location of fault.
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