Draft Underground Test Plan for site characterization and testing in an exploratory shaft facility in salt. [Includes glossary]

Technical Report · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6153234

An exploratory shaft facility (ESF) at the Deaf Smith County, Texas is a potential candidate repository site in salt. This program of underground testing constitutes part of the effort to determine site suitability, provide data for repository design and performance assessment, and prepare licensing documentation. This program was developed by defining the information needs, as derived from the governing regulatory requirements and associated performance issues; evaluating the efficacy of available tests in satisfying the information needs; and selecting the suite of underground tests that are most cost-effective and timely, considering the other surface-based, surface borehole, and laboratory test programs. Tests are described conceptually, categorized in terms of geology, geomechanics, thermomechanics, geohydrology, or geochemistry, and range in scope from site characterization to site/engineered system interactions. The testing involves construction testing, conducted in the shafts during construction, and in situ testing at depth, conducted in the shafts and in the at-depth test facility at the repository horizon after shaft connection. 41 refs., 67 figs., 16 tabs.

• Research Organization: Golder Associates, Inc., Lakewood, CO (USA); Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-83CH10140
• OSTI ID: 6153234
• Report Number(s): BMI/ONWI-644; ON: DE87012946
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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SITE SELECTION
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WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES