MIIT: International in-situ testing of simulated HLW forms--preliminary analyses of SRL 165/TDS waste glass and metal systems

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5566741

Wicks, G G ^[1]; Lodding, A R ^[2]; Macedo, P B ^[3]; Clark, D E ^[4]; Molecke, M A ^[5]

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1. Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
2. Chalmers Univ. of Tech., Goeteborg (Sweden)
3. Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC (United States). Vitreous State Lab.
4. Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL (United States)
5. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The first in-situ tests involving burial of simulated high-level waste (HLW) forms conducted in the United States were started on July 22, 1986. This effort, called the Materials Interface Interactions Tests (MIIT), comprises the largest, most cooperative field testing venture in the international waste management community. Included in the study are over 900 waste form samples comprising 15 different systems supplied by seven countries. Also included are almost 300 potential canister or overpack metal samples of 11 different metals along with more than 500 geologic and backfill specimens. There are a total of 1926 relevant interactions that characterize this effort which is being conducted in the bedded salt site at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 5566741
• Report Number(s): WSRC-RP-89-781; CONF-900406-86-Draft; ON: DE92009735
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1. international topical meeting on high-level radioactive waste management, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 8-12 Apr 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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WASTE FORMS
TESTING
CONTAINERS
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DISSOLUTION
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