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Title: Engineering feasibility studies for candidate salt domes: National Waste Terminal Storage Repository No. 1, Special Study No. 5. Technical report. [Surface and underground facilities]

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5196740

Prior designs have been completed for National Waste Terminal Storage Repositories, based upon generic sites with representative characteristics. This study examines the engineering feasibility of constructing and operating such a repository in each of seven candidate domed salt sites. The engineering feasibility assessment is based upon existing repository designs and site-specific geotechnical and environmental data. A standarized surface and underground facilities arrangement was used for each site. Facility features are intended to be compatible with the characteristics specific to each site but not necessarily the optimum. Cost estimates are developed for each site. Recommended future programs are described to obtain additional data required to adequately characterize each site.

Research Organization:
Stearns-Roger, Inc., Denver, CO (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-77RL90283; AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
5196740
Report Number(s):
ONWI-283; ON: DE82020056; TRN: 82-018396
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English