Repository Sealing Program Plan: repository in salt

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6536136

Kelsall, P C; Coons, W E; Meyer, D

The isolation of nuclear wastes in deep, mined repositories will require the sealing of all penetrations such as shafts, tunnels, or boreholes into or nearby the repository. This Repository Sealing Program Plan describes the technical programs required to complete seal designs for a repository in salt prior to license application in 1988. The plan examines the current schematic seal designs for a repository in salt and identifies seven major technical programs which are required to advance the designs to the status required for licensing: (1) update designs to incorporate site-specific geologic and hydrologic characteristics; (2) reference designs to site-specific repository designs; (3) develop site-specific performance requirements; (4) salt consolidation testing and modeling; (5) materials development; (6) design analyses; (7) verification testing. Scedules for each of these programs are keyed to governing seal design and ONWI milestones. Conceptual seal designs will be completed in FY 84 and preliminary seal designs in FY 87.

• Research Organization: D'Appolonia Consulting Engineers, Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6536136
• Report Number(s): ONWI-414; ON: DE83006925
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BOREHOLES
CAVITIES
CLOSURES
DESIGN
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PLUGGING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
SALT DEPOSITS
SEALING MATERIALS
SEALS
SHAFT EXCAVATIONS
TUNNELS
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT