Summary of the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS), Including Extended Plan for Experiments at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2024

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2429987· OSTI ID:2429987

Kuhlman, Kristopher L. ^[1]; Mills, Melissa Marie ^[1]; Choens, Robert Charles ^[1]; Herrick, Courtney G. ^[1]; Otto, Shawn ^[2]; Davis, Jon ^[2]; Stauffer, Philip H. ^[2]; Wu, Yuxin ^[3]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

This document lays out a set of near-future investigations in salt, the third phase of BATS (BATS 3). This phase is planned to answer the few remaining issues from the first two phases of BATS (BATS 1 and BATS 2), and to prepare for a subsequent large-scale demonstration phase. The BATS experiments are the first part of a larger plan to conduct field experiments to answer specific technical questions, improve the technical basis for disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste in salt (Stauffer et al., 2015; SNL et al., 2020), and demonstrate readiness for disposal of radioactive waste in salt, including large, hot waste packages.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition. Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technology; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 2429987
• Report Number(s): SAND--2024-03904R
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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