Fifth report to the US Congress and the US Secretary of Energy from the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) herewith submits its Fifth Report as required by the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, Public Law 100-203. Congress created the Board to evaluate the technical and scientific validity of the Department of Energy`s (DOE) program to manage the permanent disposal of the nation`s civilian spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Specifically, the Board is charged with evaluating the DOE`s site-characterization activities at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as well as activities relating to the design of the repository and to the packaging and transport of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste. As in all of the Board`s past reports, activities are reviewed and recommendations are presented based primarily on the breakdown of the Board`s technical panels. The report is somewhat different, however, in that the Board has chosen to address an issue that it believes has wide-ranging implications for the entire waste management system: the thermal loading of a repository. The thermal-loading strategy used to control the temperatures in a repository will affect the design and long-term performance of the repository, as well as many other aspects of the waste management system, from spent fuel storage through final disposal. It is, therefore, a fundamental decision in the U.S. waste management program.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 138870
- Report Number(s):
- PB--93-130615/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
COMPILED DATA
DECISION MAKING
DESIGN
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
GEOLOGY
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
HYDROLOGY
LEADING ABSTRACT
NEVADA
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
SPENT FUELS
THERMAL ANALYSIS
TRANSPORT REGULATIONS
US DOE
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project