Contribution to draft generic environmental impact statement on commercial waste management: radioactive waste isolation in geologic formations

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6708271

This document concentrates on deep geologic isolation of wastes in bedded salt, granite, shale, and basalt with emphasis on wastes from three fuel cycles: reprocessing wastes from uranium and plutonium recycling, reprocessing wastes from uranium-only recycling, and spent unreprocessed fuel with no recycling. The analyses presented in this document are based on preconceptual repository designs. As the repository designs progress through future phases, refinements will occur which might modify some of these results. The 12 sections in the report are: introduction; selection and description of generic repository sites; LWR wastes to be isolated in geologic formations; description of waste isolation facilities; effluents from the waste isolation facility; assessment of environment impacts for various geographical locations of a waste isolation facility; environmental monitoring; decommissioning; mine decommissioning site restoration; deep geologic alternative actions; potential mechanisms of containment failure; and considerations relevant to provisional versus final storage.

• Research Organization: Union Carbide Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (USA). Office of Waste Isolation
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6708271
• Report Number(s): Y/OWI/TM-44
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BASALT
DECOMMISSIONING
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GRANITES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
MANAGEMENT
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
ROCKS
SALT DEPOSITS
SHALES
SITE SELECTION
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT