Yucca Mountain Waste Package Closure System

Conference · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:911143

shelton-davis,; Shelton-Davis, Colleen; Housley, Greg

The current disposal path for high-level waste is to place the material into secure waste packages that are inserted into a repository. The Idaho National Laboratory has been tasked with the development, design, and demonstration of the waste package closure system for the repository project. The closure system design includes welding three lids and a purge port cap, four methods of nondestructive examination, and evacuation and backfill of the waste package, all performed in a remote environment. A demonstration of the closure system will be performed with a full-scale waste package.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
• OSTI ID: 911143
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-05-00016; TRN: US0704419
• Resource Relation: Conference: High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference,Las Vegas, Nevada,09/25/2005,09/29/2005
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 - MGMT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
CLOSURES
DESIGN
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WELDING
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
closure
waste
Yucca Mountain