Overview of the Quality Assurance Program Applied to the Performance Assessment of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Conference · Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EST 1999

OSTI ID:5030

Pickering, S Y

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the first deep geologic repository for radioactive waste disposal in the world to be certified by a regulator. Rigorous, nuclear-industry quality assurance (QA) requirements were imposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency. As the Scientific Advisor to the US Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories applied these standards to the experimental studies and performance assessment used in the certification process. The QA program ensured that activities conducted by SNL were traceable, transparent, reviewed, reproducible, and retrievable. As a result, regulators and stakeholders were able to evaluate and ultimately certify and accept the WIPP.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 5030
• Report Number(s): SAND98-2832C; TRN: US0101638
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, Nagoya (JP), 09/01/1999; Other Information: PBD: 29 Mar 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PERFORMANCE
QUALITY ASSURANCE
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
WIPP
CERTIFICATION