Technical support for GEIS: radioactive waste isolation in geologic formations. Volume I. Executive summary

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6708280· OSTI ID:6708280

This volume, Volume 1, ''Executive Summary,'' is the first of a 23-volume series, ''Technical Support for GEIS: Radioactive Waste Isolation in Geologic Formations,'' Y/OWI/TM-36, which supplements the ''Contribution to Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Commercial Waste Management: Radioactive Waste Isolation in Geologic Formations,'' Y/OWI/TM-44. The series provides a more complete technical basis for the preconceptual designs, resource requirements, and environmental source terms associated with isolating commercial LWR wastes in underground repositories in salt, granite, shale, and basalt. Wastes are considered from three fuel cycles; uranium and plutonium recycling, no recycling of spent fuel, and uranium-only recycling. This volume briefly describes the Alternate Repository Preconceptual Design Studies that led to the generic repository designs and the determination of the repository's resource requirements and environmental effluents.

• Research Organization: Science Applications, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6708280
• Report Number(s): Y/OWI/TM-36/1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BASALT
DESIGN
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FUEL CYCLE
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GRANITES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
MANAGEMENT
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
REACTORS
ROCKS
SALT DEPOSITS
SHALES
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER COOLED REACTORS