Geoscience data base handbook for modeling a nuclear waste repository. Volume 1

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5719571

Isherwood, D

This handbook contains reference information on parameters that should be considered in analyzing or modeling a proposed nuclear waste repository site. Only those parameters and values that best represent the natural environment are included. Rare extremes are avoided. Where laboratory and field data are inadequate, theoretical treatments and informed engineering judgements are presented. Volume 1 contains a data base on salt as a repository medium. Chapters on the geology of bedded and dome salt, the geomechanics of salt, hydrology, geochemistry, natural and man-made features, and seismology provide compiled data and related information useful for studying a proposed repository in salt. These and other data will be needed to derive generic deep geologic modeling parameters and will also serve as background for the verification of source data that may be presented in licensing applications for nuclear waste repositories. Volume 2 is the result of a scoping study for a data base on the geology, geomechanics, and hydrology of shale, granite, and basalt as alternative repository media. Except for the geomechanics of shale, most of the sections contain relatively complete compilations of the available data, as well as discussions of the properties that are unique to each rock type.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5719571
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-0912(Vol.1); UCRL-52719(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
CHEMISTRY
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
DATA FORMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
GEOCHEMISTRY
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GRAPHS
HYDROLOGY
INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
MAPS
MASS TRANSFER
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUMERICAL DATA
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
REVIEWS
ROCK MECHANICS
SALT DEPOSITS
SEISMOLOGY
TABLES
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT