part_subject: "PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Public Health and Environmental Standards for Disposal"
section_number: "197.30"
section_subject: "What standards must DOE meet?"
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 197.30"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 190 to 259"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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The DOE must demonstrate that there is a reasonable expectation that, for 10,000 years of undisturbed performance after disposal, releases of radionuclides from waste in the Yucca Mountain disposal system into the accessible environment will not cause the level of radioactivity in the representative volume of ground water to exceed the limits in the following Table 1: