Long-term climate change assessment study plan for the Hanford Site permanent isolation Barrier Development Program

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:10135262

Petersen, K L ^[1]; Chatters, J C ^[2]; Waugh, W J ^[3]

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1. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
2. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
3. Chem-Nuclear Geotech, Inc., Grand Junction, CO (United States)

The Hanford Site Permanent Isolation Barrier Development Program (Barrier Development Program) was organized to develop the technology needed to provide an in-place disposal capability for the Hanford Site (Adams and Wing 1986; Wig and Gee 1990). The goal of the Barrier Development Program is to provide defensible evidence that final barrier design(s) will adequately control water infiltration; plant and animal intrusion; and wind and water erosion for a minimum of 1,000 yr and isolate wastes from the accessible environment and warm inadvertent human intruders using markers. This document describes the long-term climate change studies planned to support the Barrier Development Program. The plan outlines a multi-year and multi-discipline approach to assess long-term climate change issues and to help optimize the design of the permanent isolation barriers. A multi-disciplinary approach to climatic data acquisition will be responsible for obtaining needed information for concurrent barrier tasks and for developing a local climate forecast model. This model will couple past climate patterns with models of regional and global climate drivers to provide bounding conditions for barrier performance assessment analyses.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 10135262
• Report Number(s): WHC-EP--0569; ON: DE93008906
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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