Investigation of the regional characteristic of the Devonian shales for the storage/disposal of radioactive wastes
Conference
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OSTI ID:5929368
Devonian-age shales underlie a large portion of the northeastern quadrant of the country and are abundantly thick and relatively near to the land surface within the Appalachian, Illinois and Michigan basins of that area. Although these thick accumulations of argillaceous sediments are best-known for their natural gas production and potential, they would also appear to be good candidate rocks for radioactive waste repositories as the shale is generally impermeable, and therefore, relatively free of circulating ground waters to disperse any waste emplacements.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5929368
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-790938-6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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