Waste package emplacement borehole option study; Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project
- Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
This study evaluates the cost and thermal effects of various waste package emplacement configurations that differ in emplacement orientation, number of containers per borehole, and standoff distance at the potential Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. In this study, eight additional alternatives to the vertical and horizontal orientation options presented in the Site Characterization Plan Conceptual Design Report are considered. Typical panel layout configurations based on thermal analysis of the waste and cost estimates for design and construction, operations, and closure and decommissioning were made for each emplacement option. For the thermal analysis average waste 10 years out of reactor and the SIM code were used to determine whether the various configurations temperatures would exceed the design criteria for temperature. This study does not make a recommendation for emplacement configuration, but does provide information for comparison of alternatives.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 138405
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--88-7124; ON: DE92013459
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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