Development and implementation of instrumentation for WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) Test Series A of the small-scale seal performance tests. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6982463

Ainsworth, D L

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility is a research and development facility being developed by the US Department of Energy (DOE) near Carlsbad, New Mexico for the purpose of demonstrating the safe disposal of radioactive waste accumulated from the United States defense programs. The WIPP facility is located in a bedded-salt deposit 2150 ft (656m) below the ground surface. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is conducting a repository sealing Research and Development Program at the WIPP facility. The work discussed in this report was in support of Test Series A of the Small-Scale Seal Performance Tests being conducted at the WIPP facility for SNL. The Small-Scale Seal Performance Tests consist of a series of in-situ experiments designed to evaluate the performance of various candidate seal materials emplaced in boreholes in the host rock. At the request of SNL, the Concrete Technology Division (CTD) of Waterways Experiment Station (WES) developed an instrumentation program of sufficient magnitude to support the thermal and structural studies of the concrete seal to rock system being conducted for SNL by others at CTD WES and SNL. The test program consisted of two phases: a laboratory mockup of the Test Series A configuration, conducted at WES; and a Test Series A field experiment, conducted underground at the WIPP facility.

• Research Organization: Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS (USA). Structures Lab.
• OSTI ID: 6982463
• Report Number(s): AD-A-191174/2/XAB; WES/TR/SL-88-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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