International Collaboration Activities on Engineered Barrier Systems
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The Spent Fuel Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) campaign from the DOE Fuel Cycle and Technology (FCT) program has been engaging in international collaborations between repository R&D programs for nuclear waste disposal to leverage on the extensive research investigations and laboratory/field data of engineered barrier system (EBS) components (e.g., near-field) and characterization of transport phenomena in the host rock (e.g., far-field) processes from state-of-the-art underground research laboratories (URL) experiments. Thermal heating from radionuclide decay in the waste canisters will generate increases in temperature that will drive chemical and transport processes in the near- and far-field domains of the repository. URL sites provide the ideal setting to conduct heater test experiments to simulate the thermal effects of heat-generating nuclear waste in disposal galleries and surrounding host rock.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition. Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technology
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1761988
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2017-13590R; 674084
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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