Conceptual design of a waste package for emplacement in basalt
The Basalt Waste Isolation Project's (BWIP) Waste Package Program has been developed as part of the US Department of Energy's National Waste Terminal Storage Program. The BWIP Waste Package Program is to provide a focal point for the selection of materials and the development of designs for site-specific, multiple-barrier assemblages for spent fuel and processed high-level waste disposal in basalt. The results of a joint effort among the BWIP, Westinghouse-Advanced Energy Systems Division, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, and Kaiser Engineers, Inc./Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc. to develop conceptual designs for waste packages to be emplaced in a repository located in basalt are reported. During Fiscal Year 1982, practical designs for commercial and defense high-level waste and circular bundles of spent fuel rods from three pressurized water reactor assemblies or seven boiling water reactor assemblies were developed on the basis of cost effectiveness. Each of the designs is based upon environmental and regulatory performance factors that were used in developing the package design criteria. The reference conceptual design, based on site-specific environmental conditions, consists of a waste form contained by a low carbon steel canister which is then surrounded by a backfill mixture of bentonite clay and crushed basalt. The conceptual waste packages have been utilized by the BWIP in updating the conceptual design of a nuclear waste repository in basalt and, thus, have been fully integrated into the engineered repository structure. 4 references, 3 figures, 2 tables.
- Research Organization:
- Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-77RL01030
- OSTI ID:
- 5283391
- Report Number(s):
- RHO-BW-SA-280-P; CONF-830205-37; ON: DE84006528
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BASALT
DESIGN
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR FUELS
PACKAGING
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR MATERIALS
ROCKS
SPENT FUELS
VOLCANIC ROCKS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES