Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Policy -- 2 Nuclear Waste Story: Setting the Stage -- 3 Regulating the Geologic Disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain -- 4 Performance Assessment: What Is It and Why Is It Done? -- 5 Performance Assessments: Are They Necessary or Sufficient? -- 6 Technical Policy Decision Making in Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository -- Part II Science and Technology -- I Earth Science -- 7 The Mountain Matters -- 8 Volcanism: The Continuing Saga -- 9 Climate Change at Yucca Mountain: Lessons from Earth History -- II Hydrology -- 10 Hot Upwelling Water: Did It Really Invade Yucca Mountain? -- 11 Water and Radionuclide Transport in the Unsaturated Zone -- 12 Colloidal Transport of Radionuclides -- 13 The Importance of Mineralogy at Yucca Mountain -- 14 Contaminant Transport in the Saturated Zone at Yucca Mountain -- III Thermohydrology -- 15 Thermohydrologic Effects and Interactions -- 16 The Near Field at Yucca Mountain: Effects of Coupled Processes on Nuclear Waste Isolation -- IV Waste Package Behavior -- 17 Waste Package Corrosion -- 18 Drip Shield and Backfill -- V Waste Forms -- 19 Zircaloy Cladding -- 20 Spent Fuel -- 21 Glass -- 22 Storing Waste in Ceramic -- Part III Coping with Uncertainty -- 23 The Path to Yucca Mountain and Beyond -- 24 Uncertainty, Models, and the Way Forward in Nuclear Waste Disposal -- Index.