Waste package conceptual designs for a repository located in basalt

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6743431

Smith, M J

Results are reported of a joint effort among the Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP), Westinghouse-Advanced Energy Systems Division, the Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, and Kaiser Engineers, Inc. and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Inc. to develop conceptual designs for waste packages to be emplaced in a repository located in basalt. During fiscal year 1982, practical reference designs for commercial high-level waste and circular bundles of spent fuel rods from three pressurized water reactor assemblies or seven boiling water reactor assemblies were developed on the basis of cost effectiveness. Each of the designs is based upon clearly defined environmental and regulatory performance factors that were used by the BWIP in developing package design criteria. The package design has been utilized by the BWIP in updating the conceptual design of the nuclear waste repository in basalt (NWRB) which was also completed in fiscal year 1982. A technique for developing performance and design criteria based on the favorable environmental characteristics (low-Eh, moderate-pH, low-ionic-strength groundwater) of the basalts beneath the Hanford Site are also discussed. These site-specific considerations have been utilized to greatly reduce the complexity and, hence, the cost of waste packages for basalt. The techniques employed in this analysis are applicable to other systems for which sufficient site-specific data exists. 3 figures, 1 table.

• Research Organization: Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Energy Systems Group
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 6743431
• Report Number(s): RHO-BW-SA-254-P; CONF-821205-12; ON: DE83001750
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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