Report to Congress on the potential use of lead in the waste packages for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Technical Report · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/137638· OSTI ID:137638

In the Report of the Senate Committee on Appropriations accompanying the Energy and Water Appropriation Act for 1989, the Committee directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to evaluate the use of lead in the waste packages to be used in geologic repositories for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste. The evaluation that was performed in response to this directive is presented in this report. This evaluation was based largely on a review of the technical literature on the behavior of lead, reports of work conducted in other countries, and work performed for the waste-management program being conducted by the DOE. The initial evaluation was limited to the potential use of lead in the packages to be used in the repository. Also, the focus of this report is post closure performance and not on retrievability and handling aspects of the waste package. 100 refs., 8 figs., 15 tabs.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 137638
• Report Number(s): DOE/RW-0254; ON: TI90006416; TRN: 90:006326
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
LEAD
EVALUATION
USES
SPENT FUELS
WASTE FORMS
DESIGN
COST ESTIMATION
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
TRANSPORT
CLOSURES
COMPLIANCE
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
REGULATIONS
CONTACT HANDLING
Yucca Mountain Project