Retrieval strategy report for a potential high-level nuclear waste repository; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:138276
In federal laws, regulations, and departmental directives, the US Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the US Department of Energy have developed criteria for retrievability of waste emplaced in a geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste. In response to these criteria, the Yucca Mountain Project has included in the design of the potential repository at Yucca Mountain the option to retrieve emplaced waste as a planned contingency operation. This report presents a Project strategy for maintaining retrievability. It includes descriptions of repository and equipment designs; the operations during waste emplacement, post-emplacement, and retrieval; and expected repository conditions (normal and abnormal). Retrieval-related regulations and requirements are presented and discussed as a basis for evaluating the designs and operations plans. The report concludes with discussions of retrieval strategy implementation, which includes determining which equipment and operations demonstrations are necessary or required and plans for future work. 78 figs., 34 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 138276
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--87-2777; ON: DE92005385
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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