Pyramiding tumuli waste disposal site and method of construction thereof

Patent · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:867020

Golden, Martin P ^[1]

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1. Hamburg, NY

An improved waste disposal site for the above-ground disposal of low-level nuclear waste as disclosed herein. The disposal site is formed from at least three individual waste-containing tumuli, wherein each tumuli includes a central raised portion bordered by a sloping side portion. Two of the tumuli are constructed at ground level with adjoining side portions, and a third above-ground tumulus is constructed over the mutually adjoining side portions of the ground-level tumuli. Both the floor and the roof of each tumulus includes a layer of water-shedding material such as compacted clay, and the clay layer in the roofs of the two ground-level tumuli form the compacted clay layer of the floor of the third above-ground tumulus. Each tumulus further includes a shield wall, preferably formed from a solid array of low-level handleable nuclear wate packages. The provision of such a shield wall protects workers from potentially harmful radiation when higher-level, non-handleable packages of nuclear waste are stacked in the center of the tumulus.

• Research Organization: WEST VALLEY NUCLEAR SERVICES
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-81NE44139
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4842774
• OSTI ID: 867020
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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