Issues in repository siting
Beginning this year and continuing at future information meetings of the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) program, the Site Program Office hopes to sponsor a session which will explicitly address key issues related to siting or characterization of sites for geologic repositories. The intent of these sessions is twofold: (1) to provide timely and forthright discussion of issues in which the American public may have both interest and concern, and (2) to foster discussion among NWTS program technical participants working on different projects. This year the following issues were discussed: hydrology, volcanism, and seismicity; decision process in repository siting; and nontechnical and institutional considerations in the high-level waste isolation program. The titles of the papers presented are: (1) Hydrologic Issues in Repository Siting; (2) Hydrologic Testing Within the Columbia River Basalts Beneath the Hanford Site, Washington - Recent Developments in the Basalt Waste Isolation Project; (3) Decision Process in Repository Siting; (4) Nontechnical and Institutional Considerations in the HLW Repository Program; (5) Status of Geologic Investigations at NTS; (6) Tectonics of the Southern Great Basin - Studies in Support of Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations; (7) Current Geologic Investigations in the Southwest Quadrant of the Nevada Test Site in Support of the Nuclear Waste Program; (8) Status of Geohydrologic Investigations That Are Part of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations program.
- Research Organization:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation
- OSTI ID:
- 60281
- Report Number(s):
- ONWI--212; CONF-801209--; ON: DE83001317
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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