Simulated-waste experiments planned for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
The US Department of Energy manages an R and D Program to provide a technical basis for systems designs and safety and environmental assessments for future repositories of radioactive wastes resulting from US defense activities. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeast New Mexico is being developed with that Program as an R and D facility to demonstrate the safe disposal of such wastes in bedded salt. The Simulated-Waste Experiments (SWEs) refer to the in situ tests (without radioactivity) in the WIPP R and D Program that address the technical issues of isolating radioactive wastes in bedded salt. The SWEs include tests that concern the program areas of repository development and interactions of the waste package with the host rock. Data obtained from these tests will be used in evaluating performance assessment models and in developing a technical basis for future repository designs and operations.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6814804
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-82-0547; ON: DE82022239
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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