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NNWSI repository operational procedures for receiving, packaging, emplacing, and retrieving high-level and transuranic waste

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:59528

The Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations project has as one of its principal objectives the conceptual design of the buildings and facilities that will be required at a repository for commercially generated radioactive waste. This report has been prepared for use by the repository designers in the conceptual design of the high-level and transuranic waste-handling facilities and equipment. The report contains a description of the radioactive waste expected at the repository; a description of the shipping casks and the facility casks; and a description of the waste receiving, handling, packaging, transfer, and emplacement operations. Waste retrieval operations are also discussed.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., NM (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
59528
Report Number(s):
SAND--83-1166; ON: DE84012935
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English