Ten Thousand Years of Solitude

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6124942· OSTI ID:6124942

Benford, G ^[1]; Kirkwood, C W ^[2]; Harry, O ^[3]; Pasqualetti, M J ^[4]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) California Univ., Irvine, CA (USA). Dept. of Physics
2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (USA). Coll. of Business Administration
3. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
4. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (USA)

This report documents the authors work as an expert team advising the US Department of Energy on modes of inadvertent intrusion over the next 10,000 years into the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) nuclear waste repository. Credible types of potential future accidental intrusion into the WIPP are estimated as a basis for creating warning markers to prevent inadvertent intrusion. A six-step process is used to structure possible scenarios for such intrusion, and it is concluded that the probability of inadvertent intrusion into the WIPP repository over the next ten thousand years lies between one and twenty-five percent. 3 figs., 5 tabs.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6124942
• Report Number(s): LA-12048-MS; ON: DE91010299
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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