Results of site validation experiments. Volume I. Executive summary, text and supporting documents 1 through 4. [Contains glossary]

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6410109

The Site Validation Program (SVP) investigations performed in 1982 and early 1983 have produced data sufficient to raise from an ''adequate'' or ''partial'' level of satisfaction to a ''complete'' level of satisfaction all of te nine criteria addressed by the SVP. The program has confirmed that the overall geologic conditions found in the underground area to be excavated for the WIPP facility are acceptable for safe construction. Underground mappings of Site Preliminary Design Validation (SPDV) shafts and drifts has confirmed the previous conclusions of sufficient lateral continuity and thickness, derived from seismic studies coupled with borehole descriptions and correlation. Brine content and mineralogical analyses have shown that the facility interval rock salt is low enough in fluid content and pure enough mineralogically to remove any concerns over possibly unacceptable physical-chemical interactions between waste or waste container and host rock. Vertical coreholes drilled into the back (roof) and floor throughout the SPDV drifts confirm that the interbedded materials in the rock salt within 50 ft above and below the excavated drifts are anhydrite and thin clay seams. Aquifers penetrated by the two shafts yielded very small quantities of nonpotable water. Permeability testing on both vertical and horizontal core taken from the facility interval confirmed earlier laboratory and field tests performed during the WIPP program.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-78AL05346
• OSTI ID: 6410109
• Report Number(s): WTSD-TME-3177-Vol.1; ON: DE86004326
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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