Summary of research and development activities related to the US/FRG cooperative program on nuclear waste management

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6319512

Hunter, T O; Christensen, C L; Matalucci, R V; Wawersik, W R; Molecke, M A

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has established a Research and Development Program to investigate nuclear waste repository development in rock salt. This program is primarily based on the technical aspects of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Project, which considers only wastes from the US defense program. Portions of the program, however, have sufficient generic application to be incorporated into the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) system. The program includes the following areas: high-level waste interactions; thermal/structural ineractions; radionuclide migration; fluid migration; sealing; and test development and design. The program areas include both waste package and repository development. Each program area can consist of several phases. These include: modeling activities to establish predictive techniques for performance assessment, laboratory investigations to gather data and isolate mechanisms, field tests to investigate large-scale and synergistic effects under realistic environmental conditions and, finally, in-situ tests conducted in the WIPP under actual repository conditions. This paper contains information summarized from documents, experimental data, and discussions provided by those individuals within the Sandia experimental program on the following four tasks: brine migration investigations; waste package materials program; benchmark calculations for thermomechanical codes; and rock mechanics constitutive model development.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6319512
• Report Number(s): SAND-81-1204C; CONF-8106115-1; ON: DE81023685; TRN: 81-013816
• Resource Relation: Conference: US/FRG bilateral meeting, Bonn, F.R. Germany, 8 Jun 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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