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Plan for spent fuel waste form testing for NNWSI [Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations]

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/60364· OSTI ID:60364
The purpose of spent fuel waste form testing is to determine the rate of release of radionuclides from failed disposal containers holding spent fuel, under conditions appropriate to the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI) Project tuff repository. The information gathered in the activities discussed in this document will be used: to assess the performance of the waste package and engineered barrier system (EBS) with respect to the containment and release rate requirements of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as the basis for the spent fuel waste form source term in repository-scale performance assessment modeling to calculate the cumulative releases to the accessible environment over 10,000 years to determine compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency, and as the basis for the spent fuel waste form source term in repository-scale performance assessment modeling to calculate cumulative releases over 100,000 years as required by the site evaluation process specified in the DOE siting guidelines. 34 refs.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
60364
Report Number(s):
UCID--21272; ON: DE88005802
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English