Design cost scoping studies. Nevada Test Site Terminal Waste Storage Program, Subtask 1. 3: facility hardening studies
Abstract
As part of a program being conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, to determine the feasibility of establishing a terminal waste storage repository at the Nevada Test Site, URS/John A. Blume and Associates, Engineers, made approximate determinations of the additional costs required to provide protection of structures against seismic forces. A preliminary estimate is presented of the added costs required to harden the surface structures, underground tunnels and storage rooms, and vertical shafts of the repository against ground motion caused by earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions (UNEs). The conceptual design of all of the structures was adapted from proposed bedded-salt waste-isolation repositories. Added costs for hardening were calculated for repositories in three candidate geological materials (Eleana argillite, Climax Stock granite, and Jackass Flats tuff) for several assumed peak ground accelerations caused by earthquakes (0.3g, 0.5g, and 0.7g) and by UNEs (0.5g, 0.7g, and 1.0g). Hardening procedures to protect the tunnels, storage rooms, and shafts against incremental seismic loadings were developed from (1) qualitative considerations of analytically determined seismic stresses and (2) engineering evaluations of the dynamic response of the rock mass and the tunnel support systems. The added costs for seismic hardening of the surface structuresmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- URS/John A. Blume and Associates, Engineers, San Francisco, CA (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6743154
- Report Number(s):
- JAB-99-123
TRN: 78-015580
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-C-08-0099
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NEVADA TEST SITE; GRANITES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; TUFF; COST; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; SILT; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS; US DOE; EXPLOSIONS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; ROCKS; SEISMIC EVENTS; STORAGE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; 052002* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage
Citation Formats
Yanev, P I, and Owen, G N. Design cost scoping studies. Nevada Test Site Terminal Waste Storage Program, Subtask 1. 3: facility hardening studies. United States: N. p., 1978.
Web. doi:10.2172/6743154.
Yanev, P I, & Owen, G N. Design cost scoping studies. Nevada Test Site Terminal Waste Storage Program, Subtask 1. 3: facility hardening studies. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6743154
Yanev, P I, and Owen, G N. 1978.
"Design cost scoping studies. Nevada Test Site Terminal Waste Storage Program, Subtask 1. 3: facility hardening studies". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6743154. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6743154.
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title = {Design cost scoping studies. Nevada Test Site Terminal Waste Storage Program, Subtask 1. 3: facility hardening studies},
author = {Yanev, P I and Owen, G N},
abstractNote = {As part of a program being conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, to determine the feasibility of establishing a terminal waste storage repository at the Nevada Test Site, URS/John A. Blume and Associates, Engineers, made approximate determinations of the additional costs required to provide protection of structures against seismic forces. A preliminary estimate is presented of the added costs required to harden the surface structures, underground tunnels and storage rooms, and vertical shafts of the repository against ground motion caused by earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions (UNEs). The conceptual design of all of the structures was adapted from proposed bedded-salt waste-isolation repositories. Added costs for hardening were calculated for repositories in three candidate geological materials (Eleana argillite, Climax Stock granite, and Jackass Flats tuff) for several assumed peak ground accelerations caused by earthquakes (0.3g, 0.5g, and 0.7g) and by UNEs (0.5g, 0.7g, and 1.0g). Hardening procedures to protect the tunnels, storage rooms, and shafts against incremental seismic loadings were developed from (1) qualitative considerations of analytically determined seismic stresses and (2) engineering evaluations of the dynamic response of the rock mass and the tunnel support systems. The added costs for seismic hardening of the surface structures were found to be less than 1% of the estimated construction cost of the surface structures. For the underground structures, essentially no hardening was required for peak ground accelerations up to 0.3g; however, added costs became significant at 0.5g, with a possible increase in structural costs for the underground facilities of as much as 35% at 1.0g.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6743154},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1978},
month = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1978}
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