Nevada nuclear waste storage investigations. Quarterly report, April-June 1981

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:59036

The Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NWSI) are oriented toward developing or improving the technology of nuclear waste storage and disposal and determining whether selected underground rock media on or adjoining the Nevada Test Site are technically acceptable for a licensed, permanent, high-level nuclear waste repository. The NNWSI Project Work Breakdown Structure for FY 1981 is comprised of the following eight tasks: systems; waste package; site; repository; regulatory and institutional; test facilities; land acquisition; and program management. Some of the highlights for this quarter are: initial screening studies of candidate waste package alloys in tuff groundwater have been completed; installation of the Constant Air Monitoring System and the Remote Area Monitoring System was completed at the E-MAD Facility; a transport model for describing the potential behavior of radionuclides in tuff was developed; a diaphragm diffusion cell was constructed for directly measuring the diffusion properties of tuff; a report was completed on the mineralogy and petrology of the 6000-foot section of the first major exploratory stratigraphic hole at Yucca Mountain; a series of numerical experiments have been conducted to employ nuclear explosions and earthquake data in a simultaneous inversion for crustal velocities and station delays to improve the accuracy of earthquake location; a three-dimensional material model was developed for predicting jointed rock-mass response.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Las Vegas, NV (United States). Nevada Operations Office
• OSTI ID: 59036
• Report Number(s): NVO--196-26; ON: DE82004722
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
58 GEOSCIENCES
BASALT
CONTAINERS
DIFFUSION
DRILL CORES
GEOLOGY
GROUND WATER
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MINERALOGY
NEVADA TEST SITE
PETROLOGY
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
ROCK MECHANICS
SEISMOLOGY
SITE SELECTION
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
TUFF
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
VOLCANOES
Yucca Mountain Project