National Waste Terminal Storage Program. Technical progress report for the quarter 1 July-30 September 1982

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6275418

The National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) program was established in 1976 and given the responsibility of developing a system for the permanent isolation of nuclear wastes. NWTS is part of the Office of Nuclear Waste Management in the US Department of Energy. The establishment of NWTS signaled the acceleration of the national program. The purpose of the NWTS program is to develop the technology and facilities required for the disposal of commercial spent nuclear fuel, defense high-level waste, and transuranic waste, ensuring public health and safety and protection of the environment. The program includes facilities for receiving, encapsulation, and disposal of wastes. The scope of the NWTS repository development effort includes comprehensive geologic exploration, technology development, equipment testing, and model verification activities, as well as the design, licensing, construction, operation, and decommissioning activities required to provide geologic repositories and spent fuel handling and packaging facilities. Development of the technology, methodology, and facilities for interim spent fuel storage, waste treatment, and waste transportation, which are interfacing activities with the terminal isolation activity in the national waste-management program, are being carried out in other DOE efforts.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6275418
• Report Number(s): ONWI-9(82-4); ON: DE83012117
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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LEACHING
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RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
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RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
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SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPENT FUELS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE-ROCK INTERACTIONS
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