Tumulus Disposal Demonstration Facility for the Oak Ridge Reservation
This disposal concept is based on the Tumulus design developed by the French at the La Manche facility. Waste units are stacked above-grade on a concrete pad. The facility currently under development at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) involves sealing waste in concrete vaults, placing the vaults on a grade level concrete pad, and covering the pad and vaults with a soil cover after vault emplacement is complete. Emplacement is expected to continue until the facility exhausts its approximate 800 m/sup 3/ (28,000 ft/sup 3/) capacity. The facility incorporates engineered barriers to radionuclide migration; a monitoring system to ensure barrier performance; and a newly developed set of Demonstration Waste Acceptance Criteria to reduce the likelihood of groundwater contamination.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 6309299
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870653-1; ON: DE87011669
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: A critical path in developing low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities, Boston, MA, USA, 29 Jun 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
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MASS TRANSFER
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