Salt Heater Test (FY19), Rev. 2

Technical Report · Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1763224· OSTI ID:1763224

Mills, Melissa Marie ^[1]; Kuhlman, Kristopher L. ^[1]; Matteo, Edward N. ^[1]; Herrick, Courtney G. ^[1]; Nemer, Martin ^[1]; Heath, Jason E. ^[1]; Xiong, Yongliang ^[1]; Lopez, Carlos Matthew ^[1]; Stauffer, Philip ^[2]; Boukhalfa, Hakim ^[2]; Guiltinan, Eric ^[2]; Rahn, Thom ^[2]; Weaver, Doug ^[2]; Dozier, Brian ^[2]; Otto, Shawn ^[2]; Rutqvist, Jonny ^[3]; Wu, Yuxin ^[3]; Hu, Mengsu ^[3]; Crandall, Dustin ^[4]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
4. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV (United States)

This report summarizes the 2019 fiscal year (FY19) status of the borehole heater test in salt funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Spent Fuel and Waste Science & Technology (SFWST) campaign. This report satisfies SFWST level-three milestone report M3SF-19SN010303033. This report is an update of the April 2019 level-two milestone report M2SF-19SNO10303031 to reflect the nearly complete as-built status of the borehole heater test. This report discusses the fiscal year 2019 (FY19) design, implementation, and preliminary data interpretation plan for a set of borehole heater tests call the brine availability tests in salt (BATS), which is funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a DOE Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) site. The organization of BATS is outlined in Project Plan: Salt In-Situ Heater Test (SNL, 2018). An early design of the field test is laid out in Kuhlman et al. (2017), including extensive references to previous field tests, which illustrates aspects of the present test. The previous test plan by Stauffer et al. (2015) places BATS in the context of a multi-year testing strategy, which involves tests of multiple scales and processes, eventually culminating in a drift-scale disposal demonstration. This level-3 milestone report is an update of a level-2 milestone report from April 2019 by the same name. The update adds as-built details of the heater test, which at the time of writing (August 2019) is near complete implementation.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 1763224
• Report Number(s): SAND--2019-10240R; 678961
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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