Volume 1
Cover and Front Matter
Chapter 1: Purpose and Need for Agency Action
Chapter 2: Proposed Action and No-Action Alternative
Chapter 3: Affected Environment
Chapter 4: Environmental Impacts of Repository Construction, Operation and Monitoring, and Closure
Sections 4.1.10 thru 4.2
Sections 4.3 thru References
Chapter 5: Environmental Impacts of Postclosure Repository Performance
Chapter 6: Environmental Impacts of Transportation
Chapter 7: Environmental impacts of the No-Action Alternative
Chapter 8: Cumulative Impacts
Chapter 9: Management Actions to Mitigate Potential Adverse Environmental Impacts
Chapter 10: Unavoidable Adverse impacts; Short-Term Uses and Long-Term Productivity; and Irreversible or Irretrievable Commitment of Resources
Chapter 11: Statutory and Other Applicable Requirements
Chapter 12: Glossary
Chapter 13: Preparers, Contributors, and Reviewers
Volume II
Cover and Front Matter
Appendix A, Options to Elements of the Proposed Action
Appendix B, Nonradiological Air Quality
Appendix C, Floodplain/Wetlands Assessment for the Proposed Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository
Appendix D, Radiological Health Impacts Primer and Estimation of Preclosure Radiological Health Impacts
Appendix E, Potential Repository Accident Scenarios and Sabotage: Analytical Methods and Results
Appendix F, Environmental Impacts of Postclosure Repository Performance
Appendix G, Transportation
Appendix H, Supplemental Transportation Information
Appendix I, Federal Register Notices
Appendix J, Distribution List
Tables and Figures
Table 4-7 Land cover types found in the region of influence
Table 4-25 Estimated radiological consequences of repository operations accident scenarios for unfavorable sector-specific meteorological conditions
Table 4-26 Estimated radiological consequences of repository operations accident scenarios for annual average sector-specific meteorological conditions
Table 5-1 Important changes to the TSPA since completion of the Yucca Mountain FEIS
Figure S-1 Commercial And DOE site from which DOE would ship radioactive materials
Figure S-2 Land withdrawal area used for analytical purposes
Figure S-3 Components of the natural system
Figure S-4 TAD canister schematic
Figure S-5 Geologic repository operations area
Figure S-6 Overview flowchart for typical operations of the Proposed Action
Figure S-7 Emplacement pallets loaded with waste packages in an emplacement drift
Figure S-8 Management of waste package emplacement using thermal energy density
Figure S-9 Representative national rail routes considered in the analysis for this Repository SEIS
Figure S-11 Map of the saturated groundwater flow system
Figure 2-1 Overview flowchart for typical operations of the Proposed Action
Figure 2-2 Management of waste package emplacement using thermal energy density
Figure 2-3 TAD Canister schematic
Figure 2-4 Geologic repository operations area
Figure 2-5 Surface layout of the surface geologic repository operations area and vicinity
Figure 2-7 Tunnel boring machine
Figure 2-8 Emplacement pallets loaded with waste packages in an emplacement drift
Figure 2-9 Cross section of a waste package, pallet, emplacement drift invert, and drip shield
Figure 2-10 Location of features in the vicinity of the Yucca Mountain site
Figure 2-11 Representative national rail routes considered in the analysis for this Repository SEIS
Figure 2-12 Representative national truck routes considered in the analysis for this Repository SEIS
Figure 2-13 Caliente and Mina rail alignments
Figure 2-14 Interface of the geologic repository operations area with the proposed Rail Equipment Maintenance Yard and the railroad
Figure 3-1 Land use and ownership in the region of influence
Figure 3-2 Airspace use near Yucca Mountain
Figure 3-3 Wind patterns in the Yucca Mountain vicinity
Figure 3-4 General bedrock geology of the proposed repository
Figure 3-5 Simplified geologic cross section of Yucca Mountain, west to east
Figure 3-6 Site topography and potential flood areas
Figure 3-7 Boundaries of Death Valley regional groundwater flow system
Figure 3-8 Groundwater basins and sections of the Central Death Valley subregion
Figure 3-9 Hydrographic areas in the Yucca Mountain region
Figure 3-11 Cross section from northern Yucca Mountain to northern Amargosa Desert
Figure 3-12 Original potentiometric surface map for the Yucca Mountain area
Figure 3-13 Revised potentiometric surface map for the Yucca Mountain area
Figure 3-14 Socioeconomic region of influence for this Repository SEIS
Figure 3-16 Population distribution within 80 kilometers of the posed repository
Figure 3-17 Visual Resource Management classification in the region of influence
Figure 3-18 Existing Nevada Test Site electric power supply
Figure 3-19 2000 Census blocks with minority populations of 50 percent or more
Figure 3-20 Commercial and DOE sites in each No-Action Alternative analysis region
Figure 4-8 Visual resource management classifications in potentially affected areas
Figure 4-9 Proposed airspace use near Yucca Mountain
Figure 4-10 Proposed infrastructure improvements
Figure 5-1 Relationship between the published TSPA modes and models used for the Draft Yucca Mountain EIS, FEIS, and this Repository SEIS
Figure 5-2 Components of the natural system
Figure 5-3 Saturated groundwater flow system
Figure 6-1 Commercial and DOE sites in each No-Action Alternative analysis region
Figure 6-2 Commercial and DOE sites in each No-Action Alternative analysis region