Integrated monitored retrievable storage/repository comparative study: Task 5, Engineering study No. 12

Technical Report · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:7060729

The US Department of Energy (DOE) established a monitored retrievable storage (MRS)/repository interface task force to investigate the impact of implementing an integrated radioactive waste management system. The task force was organized into five subtask groups. Subtask 2 among these groups was given responsibility for developing the repository and MRS surface facility design concepts for various scenarios as established by subtask 1. The development of various concepts focused on the impacts on design, operations, cost, licensing, health and safety, and schedule. Other impacts, including transportation, quality assurance, environmental impact, waste acceptance schedule, and fee adequacy, were not considered to be part of this study. The results of the task force investigation will be documented in an MRS needs and feasibility report and in the MRS integration plan. A study was done that compared several specific engineering study cases that integrated the MRS facility, the basalt repository (Repository No. 1), and the crystalline rock repository (Repository No. 2) into a waste management system. These study cases were derived by DOE as representative of the scenarios established by subtask 1. The scope of this study was limited to repository surface facilities. Factors not considered, which affect how the information is used, include: impact on offsite transportation between an MRS and the repository and impact on repository underground facilities. In addition, the cost and schedule data were developed on a comparative basis between engineering study cases. This study is documented in two submittals. This report includes the results, method of calculation, major decisions, assumptions, and logic used for the study. The second submittal contains the backup material and reference data.

• Research Organization: Kaiser (Raymond) Engineers, Inc., Homer City, PA (USA); Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., Oakland, CA (USA); Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 7060729
• Report Number(s): RHO-BW-CR-154P; ON: DE87006472
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

052002* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Disposal & Storage
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BASALT
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
IGNEOUS ROCKS
IMPLEMENTATION
MANAGEMENT
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
ROCKS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
STORAGE
VOLCANIC ROCKS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE STORAGE