Staff Technical Position on geological repository operations area underground facility design: Thermal loads
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of High-Level Waste Management
- Itasca Consulting Group, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (United States)
The purpose of this Staff Technical Position (STP) is to provide the US Department of Energy (DOE) with a methodology acceptable to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff for demonstrating compliance with 10 CFR 60.133(i). The NRC staff's position is that DOE should develop and use a defensible methodology to demonstrate the acceptability of a geologic repository operations area (GROA) underground facility design. The staff anticipates that this methodology will include evaluation and development of appropriately coupled models, to account for the thermal, mechanical, hydrological, and chemical processes that are induced by repository-generated thermal loads. With respect to 10 CFR 60.133(i), the GROA underground facility design: (1) should satisfy design goals/criteria initially selected, by considering the performance objectives; and (2) must satisfy the performance objectives 10 CFR 60.111, 60.112, and 60.113. The methodology in this STP suggests an iterative approach suitable for the underground facility design.
- Research Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Div. of High-Level Waste Management
- Sponsoring Organization:
- NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 7049704
- Report Number(s):
- NUREG-1466; ON: TI93005789
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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