Design of a high-level waste repository system for the United States

Technical Report · Thu May 12 04:00:00 EDT 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/137674· OSTI ID:137674

Baeza, J. L.; Boerigter, S. T.; Broadbent, G. E.; Cabello, E. D.; Duran, V. B.; Hollaway, W. R.; Karlberg, R. P.; Siegel, M. J.; Simonson, S. A.

This report presents a conceptual design for a High Level Waste disposal system for fuel discharged by US commercial power reactors, using the Yucca Mountain repository site recently designated by federal legislation. Principal features of the resulting conceptual design include use of unit trains for periodic removal of old spent fuel from at-reactor storage facilities, buffer storage at the repository site using dual purpose transportation/storage casks, repackaging of the spent fuel from the dual purpose transportation/storage casks directly into special-alloy disposal canisters as intact fuel assemblies, without rod consolidation, emplacement into a repository of modular design, use of excavation techniques that minimize disturbance, both mechanical and chemical, to the geologic environment, a unit rail mounted vehicle for both the transportation and emplacement of the canister from the surface facilities to the underground repository, and a cost-effectiveness computer model of Yucca Mountain and an independent cost evaluation by members of the design team. 31 refs., 58 figs., 15 tabs.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00033
• OSTI ID: 137674
• Report Number(s): MITNE--281; ON: DE90007744
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
COMPILED DATA
COST ESTIMATION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DECONTAMINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
EXCAVATION
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
LAND TRANSPORT
MASS TRANSFER
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OPTIMIZATION
PUBLIC POLICY
RAIL TRANSPORT
REACTORS
REGULATIONS
REMOTE HANDLING
RISK ASSESSMENT
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
SPENT FUELS
TIME DEPENDENCE
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
USA
W CODES
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project