The Herfa-Neurode hazardous waste repository in bedded salt as an operating model for safe mixed waste disposal
For 18 years, The Herfa-Neurode underground repository has demonstrated the environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in a former potash mine. Its principal characteristics make it an excellent analogue to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The Environmental Protection Agency has ruled in its first conditional no-migration determination that is reasonably certain that no hazardous constituents of the mixed waste, destined for the WIPP during its test phase, will migrate from the site for up to ten years. Knowledge of and reference to the Herfa-Neurode operating model may substantially improve the no-migration variance petition for the WIPP's disposal phase and thereby expedite its approval. 2 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-86AL31950
- OSTI ID:
- 5881430
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/WIPP-90-035C; CONF-910270-51; ON: DE91011451
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste management '91, Tucson, AZ (USA), 24-28 Feb 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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