Facility rearrangement scoping study: Draft letter report

Technical Report · Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6972472

We assessed the feasibility of designing the salt repository layouts so that shafts, surface structures and facilities would be totally within the north-east (NE) and center-east (CE) (one square mile) sections of the 9 square mile Deaf Smith site. With the latest version of the SCP-Conceptual Design as the basis, rearrangement analyses were conducted for the surface and subsurface layouts. For the rearranged layouts that were workable, impact assessments, relative to the SCP-Conceptual Design, were performed. This study concluded that, on a qualitative basis, the salt repository surface facilities can be relocated to within the north-east and center-east sections of the site. A suitable subsurface layout can be designed to accommodate this rearrangement. The resultant surface rearrangement is depicted. The two study sections (NE and CE) are emphasized on this figure. For reference, the location of the surface facilities in the SCP-Conceptual Design is also shown. 11 refs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; Fluor Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA (USA). Advanced Technology Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-87CH10290; AC02-83WM46656
• OSTI ID: 6972472
• Report Number(s): BMI/ONWI/C-296; ON: TI89000053
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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