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United States program for the safety assessment of geologic disposal of commercial radioactive wastes

Content Provider	United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Author	Claiborne, H. C.
Organization	Union Carbide Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (USA). Office of Waste Isolation
Abstract	The safe disposal of commercial radioactive wastes in deep geologic formations is the goal of the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) Program. A comprehensive safety assessment program has been established which will proceed on a schedule consistent with the start-up of two waste repositories in late 1985. Safety assessment begins with selection of a disposal site; that is, all geologic and hydrologic factors must indicate long-term stability of the formation and prospective isolation of wastes from circulating around waters for hundreds of thousands of years. The long-term stability of each site must be demonstrated by sophisticated rock mechanics analyses. To help provide answers on the mechanism and consequences of an unlikely breach in the integrity of the repository, a Waste Isolation Safety Assessment Program (WISAP) is being sponsored at the Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories. Methods and data necessary to characterize the safety of generic geological waste disposal concepts, which are to be applied in the assessment of specific sties, will be developed. Other long-term safety-related studies that complement WISAP are in progress, for example, borehole plugging, salt dissolutioning, and salt transport in vertical boreholes. Requirements for licensing are in the process of being formulated by the NRC.
Related Links	https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7305387
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher Date	1977-01-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NONRADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS SAFETY RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE SITE SELECTION STABILITY MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA STORAGE WASTE DISPOSAL WASTE MANAGEMENT WASTE STORAGE Nuclear Fuels Waste Disposal & Storage
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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