Executive committee report: geotechnical instrumentation working group meeting

Conference · Mon Apr 26 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5360671

Wilder, D G; Rogue, F; Beloff, W R; Binnall, E; Gregory, E C

Responding to the widespread need for the geotechnical community to discuss instrumentation for nuclear waste repositories, a meeting was held December 2 and 3, 1981, in Denver, Colorado. This report gives the group's consensus recommendations to aid in making decisions for development of instrumentation for future repository work. The main conclusions of the working group meeting were as follows: (1) monitoring of geotechnical parameters in nuclear waste repositories will be necessary to meet licensing requirements; (2) currently available instruments are underdeveloped for this monitoring; (3) research and development to provide adequate instrumentation will need to be performed under federal sponsorship by national laboratories, universities, contractors, and consultants; and (4) a NASA-type reliability program is needed to meet the quality assurance, durability, calibration, and time schedule demands of geotechnical instrumentation development. This will require significant financial commitments from the federal sector.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); Soil and Rock Instrumentation Co., Newton Upper Falls, MA (USA); Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA); Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5360671
• Report Number(s): UCRL-87183; CONF-820422-3; ON: DE82012837
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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