Geostatistical, sensitivity, and uncertainty methods for ground-water flow and radionuclide transport modeling: Proceedings

The overall theme of the DOE/AECL '87 conference was the application of statistical methods for sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to nuclear waste disposal flow and transport modeling. The conference was organized into six technical sessions dealing with different topics in that theme: the role of statistical methods in the nuclear waste repository performance assessment plans of several waste disposal programs, sensitivity and uncertainty methods for large computer codes, stochastic hydrology, statistical methods for modeling flow and transport in fractured media, geostatistical methods, and the use of subjective information to supplement hard data in performance assessment studies. Thirty-one presentations were made in the six sessions. Several presentations were invited from well-known authorities in the various technical fields. These invited presentations were supplemented by the contributed presentations of researchers from seven different countries. At the combustion of the technical sessions, an open discussion session was held to address areas of concern to all conference attendees