Salt repository project retrieval strategy study: Draft: Technical report

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6900271

Tome', R L; Smith, S C; Howe, K E.L.; Smith, L A; Querns, W R

This study presents a preliminary overview of the Salt Repository Project's waste retrieval strategy for compliance with the DOE and other government requirements. Presented is the retrieval strategy, system approach, and program necessary to go from the conceptual design waste retrieval concept through the following: advanced conceptual retrieval design and demonstration; license application retrieval design and testing; submittal of retrieval-based license application design and input; and equipment testing, prototype retrieval engineering, and associated retrieval option maintenance evaluations for all repository program phases. This work is a cooperative effort involving the input of a multidiscipline working group and building on the efforts of previous repository program studies on waste retrieval. Included in this document are descriptions of the salt repository program operational concepts on emplacement, postemplacement, and retrieval, as well as interpretations of retrieval-related institutional and design requirements and criteria. Conditions expected during a waste retrieval operation are discussed. Also, preliminary plans for future work, both proof-of-principle demonstration and associated retrieval design activities, are presented, followed by an order-of-magnitude cost estimate and schedule for the future work. 35 refs., 40 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (USA). Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation; Fluor Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-87CH10290; AC02-83CH10140
• OSTI ID: 6900271
• Report Number(s): BMI/ONWI/C-284; BMI/ONWI-697; ON: DE88016968
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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