Nuclear waste repository in basalt. Project B-301: functional design criteria

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6579508

This document establishes the functional design criteria (FDC) for a federally licensed nuclear waste repository in basalt (NWRB), and supercedes the guidelines set up in 1979, for repository preconceptual design. This FDC has eight sections and five appendices. Section 1.0 outlines the principal functions of the repository, the facilities, and the systems that support repository development and waste-handling operations. The second section contains overall design criteria for the repository. Sections 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 contain specific criteria for the development and operation of the surface facilities, the access shafts, and the subsurface facilities, respectively. Waste-handling system criteria appear in Section 6.0. Section 7.0 contains criteria for service systems for the developmental and operational phases of the repository. Detailed information on site-specific characteristics (geology, hydrology, etc.) is in Section 8.0. The appendices contain codes, standards, and regulations, bibliography, glossary of terms, acronyms, and personnel requirements.

• Research Organization: Kaiser Engineers, Inc., Chicago, IL (USA); Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., New York (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 6579508
• Report Number(s): RHO-BWI-CD-38(Rev.3)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BASALT
DESIGN
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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RADIOACTIVE WASTES
ROCKS
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
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