The On-line Waste Library (OWL): Usage and Inventory Status Report

Technical Report · Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1333703· OSTI ID:1333703

Sassani, David ^[1]; Jang, Je-Hun ^[1]; Mariner, Paul ^[1]; Price, Laura L. ^[1]; Rechard, Robert P. ^[1]; Rigali, Mark J. ^[1]; Rogers, Ralph ^[1]; Stein, Emily ^[1]; Walkow, Walter M. ^[1]; Weck, Philippe F. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The Waste Form Disposal Options Evaluation Report (SNL 2014) evaluated disposal of both Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel (CSNF) and DOE-managed HLW and Spent Nuclear Fuel (DHLW and DSNF) in the variety of disposal concepts being evaluated within the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign. That work covered a comprehensive inventory and a wide range of disposal concepts. The primary goal of this work is to evaluate the information needs for analyzing disposal solely of a subset of those wastes in a Defense Repository (DRep; i.e., those wastes that are either defense related, or managed by DOE but are not commercial in origin). A potential DRep also appears to be safe in the range of geologic mined repository concepts, but may have different concepts and features because of the very different inventory of waste that would be included. The focus of this status report is to cover the progress made in FY16 toward: (1) developing a preliminary DRep included inventory for engineering/design analyses; (2) assessing the major differences of this included inventory relative to that in other analyzed repository systems and the potential impacts to disposal concepts; (3) designing and developing an on-line waste library (OWL) to manage the information of all those wastes and their waste forms (including CSNF if needed); and (4) constraining post-closure waste form degradation performance for safety assessments of a DRep. In addition, some continuing work is reported on identifying potential candidate waste types/forms to be added to the full list from SNL (2014 – see Table C-1) which also may be added to the OWL in the future. The status for each of these aspects is reported herein.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5). Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1333703
• Report Number(s): SAND2016-9485R; 647677; TRN: US1700771
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
SPENT FUELS
DATA
INFORMATION NEEDS
INVENTORIES
LIBRARIES
DESIGN
WASTE FORMS
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
RISK ASSESSMENT
EVALUATION
PERFORMANCE
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES