Development of reference conditions for geologic repositories for nuclear waste in the USA

Conference · Wed Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6781102

Raines, G. E.; Rickertsen, L. D.; Claiborne, H. C.; McElroy, J. L.; Lynch, R. W.

Activities to determine interim reference conditions for temperatures, pressure, fluid, chemical, and radiation environments that are expected to exist in commercial and defense high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel repositories in salt, basalt, tuff, granite, and shale are summarized. These interim conditions are being generated by the Reference Repository Conditions Interface Working Groups (RRC-IWG), an ad hoc IWG established by the National Waste Terminal Storage Program's (NWTS) Isolation Interface Control Board (I-ICB).

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; Science Applications, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA); Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA); Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6781102
• Report Number(s): SAND-80-2416C(Draft); CONF-801124-10(Draft)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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