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A database of information on technologies for hazardous waste site remediation

Description: A personal-computer-based database and user interface has been developed for retrieving and reviewing information on technologies applicable to the environmental remediation of hazardous waste sites. This system and its information represent a useful source of technology information for people preparing, reviewing, and approving site remediation plans or evaluating remediation technologies. The system includes a variety of information for approximately 90 distinct remedial action technologies. … more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Holter, G. M.; White, M. K. & Byrant, J. L.
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Basic data report for drillhole WIPP 30 (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - WIPP)

Description: WIPP 30 was drilled in east-central Eddy County, New Mexico, in NW 1/4, Sec. 33, T21S, R31E, to obtain drill core for the study of dissolution of near-surface rocks. The borehole encountered from top to bottom, the Dewey Lake Red Beds (449' including artificial fill for drill pad), Rustler Formation (299'), and the upper 160' of the Salado Formation. Continuous core was cut from the surface to total depth. Geophysical logs were taken the full length of the borehole to measure acoustic velocitie… more
Date: April 1, 1980
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WIPP conceptual design report. Addendum A. Design calculations for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)

Description: The design calculations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are presented. The following categories are discussed: general nuclear calculations; radwaste calculations; structural calculations; mechanical calculations; civil calculations; electrical calculations; TRU waste surface facility time and motion analysis; shaft sinking procedures; hoist time and motion studies; mining system analysis; mine ventilation calculations; mine structural analysis; and miscellaneous underground calculat… more
Date: April 1, 1977
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Heated mine room and pillar secondary creep response

Description: Heated salt mine room and pillar simulations have been performed to provide information regarding parameters affecting room closure rates to designers of radioactive waste isolation facilities. A coupled secondary creep and heat transfer formulation with large strain capabilities was used to assess the effects of variations in creep law parameters, thermal properties, imposed boundary conditions, temporal integration, and meshing resolution on room closure rates. Results indicate that the great… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Tillerson, J.R. & Dawson, P.R.
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Cross-hole investigation of a rock mass subjected to heating

Description: A cross-hole high-frequency acoustic investigation of a granitic rock mass subjected to sustained heating is reported. Compressional and shear-wave velocity measurements along four different paths between four vertical boreholes made prior to turning on the heater, during 398 days of heating and after the heater was turned off correlated well with the presence of fracture zones, in which the fractures were closed by thermal expansion of the rock upon heating. When the rock mass cooled, the velo… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Paulsson, B.N.P. & King, M.S.
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Methods for determining radionuclide retardation factors: status report

Description: This report identifies a number of mechanisms that retard radionuclide migration, and describes the static and dynamic methods that are used to study such retardation phenomena. Both static and dynamic methods are needed for reliable safety assessments of underground nuclear-waste repositories. This report also evaluates the extent to which the two methods may be used to diagnose radionuclide migration through various types of geologic media, among them unconsolidated, crushed, intact, and frac… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Relyea, J. F.; Serne, R. J. & Rai, D.
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Mass transfer and transport in a geologic environment

Description: This report is in a continuing series of reports that present analytic solutions for the dissolution and hydrogeologic transport of radionuclides from geologic repositories of nuclear waste. Previous reports have dealt mainly with radionuclide transport in the far-field, away from the effects of the repository. In the present report, the emphasis is on near-field processes, the transfer and transport of radionuclides in the vicinity of the waste packages. The primary tool used in these analyses… more
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Chambre, P. L.; Pigford, T. H.; Lee, W. W. L.; Ahn, J.; Kajiwara, S.; Kim, C. L. et al.
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Executive committee report: geotechnical instrumentation working group meeting

Description: Responding to the widespread need for the geotechnical community to discuss instrumentation for nuclear waste repositories, a meeting was held December 2 and 3, 1981, in Denver, Colorado. This report gives the group's consensus recommendations to aid in making decisions for development of instrumentation for future repository work. The main conclusions of the working group meeting were as follows: (1) monitoring of geotechnical parameters in nuclear waste repositories will be necessary to meet … more
Date: April 26, 1982
Creator: Wilder, D. G.; Rogue, F.; Beloff, W. R.; Binnall, E. & Gregory, E. C.
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WIPP conceptual design report. Addendum J. Support equipment in the high level waste facility of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Description: The Aerojet Manufacturing Company (AMCO) received a contract in November 1976 to provide consulting services in assisting Holmes and Narver, Incorporated with the conceptual designs, cost estimates, and schedules of equipment used to handle waste casks, to decontaminate waste canisters and to overpack damaged or highly contaminated waste canisters for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Also, the layout of the hot cell in which canister handling, overpack and decontamination takes place was… more
Date: April 1, 1977
Creator: Rieb, M.J. & Foley, R.S.
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Preliminary subsurface hydrologic considerations: Columbia River Plateau Physiographic Province. Assessment of effectiveness of geologic isolation systems

Description: This report contains a discussion of the hydrologic conditions of the Columbia River Plateau physiographic province. The Columbia River Plateau is underlain by a thick basalt sequence. The Columbia River basalt sequence contains both basalt flows and sedimentary interbeds. These sedimentary interbeds, which are layers of sedimentary rock between lava flows, are the main aquifer zones in the basalt sequence. Permeable interflow zones, involving the permeable top and/or rubble bottom of a flow, a… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Veatch, M.D.
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Reactor-specific spent fuel discharge projections, 1984 to 2020

Description: The original spent fuel utility data base (SFDB) has been adjusted to produce agreement with the EIA nuclear energy generation forecast. The procedure developed allows the detail of the utility data base to remain intact, while the overall nuclear generation is changed to match any uniform nuclear generation forecast. This procedure adjusts the weight of the reactor discharges as reported on the SFDB and makes a minimal (less than 10%) change in the original discharge exposures in order to pres… more
Date: April 1, 1985
Creator: Heeb, C. M.; Libby, R. A. & Holter, G. M.
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Remarks on the assessment, representation, aggregation and utilization of expert opinion

Description: This report considers the relevance of recent ideas in the foundations of probability to the rational use of expert opinion in the design of a nuclear waste repository, and the assessment of its performance. The main probability concepts introduce are those of modal (probably A), comparative (A is at least as probable as B) and interval-valued (the lower probability of A is P(A) and the upper probability of A is P(anti A)) probabilities. We then outline an approach first using comparative proba… more
Date: April 1, 1980
Creator: Fine, T.L.
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Naturally occurring glasses: analogues for radioactive waste forms

Description: Volcanic glasses are very often altered by weathering and leaching and recrystallize to their fine-grained equivalents (rhyolites, felsites). The oldest volcanic glasses are dated at 40 million years before the present, but the majority are much younger. Devitrification textures was produced experimentally; and hydration rates for volcanic glasses were determined as a function of composition, temperature, and climate. Presence of water and temperature are the most important rate controlling var… more
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Ewing, R.C. & Haaker, R.F.
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Borehole Plugging Program

Description: Activities are reported in programs to locate, test, and select materials for borehole plugs near nuclear waste repositories. Background information concerning borehole plugging is presented and work to date is summarized. Borehole sealants considered are listed and recommended steps to plug boreholes are given. Planned research is summarized. (JRD)
Date: April 1, 1978
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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WIPP conceptual design report. Addendum F. HVAC systems energy analysis for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Description: This report presents the results of a technical and economic analysis of alternative methods of meeting the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning requirements of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facilities proposed to be constructed in southeastern New Mexico. This report analyzes a total of ten WIPP structures to determine the most energy and economic efficient means of providing heating, ventilating, and air conditioning services. Additional analyses were performed to determine the… more
Date: April 1, 1977
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ARDISC (Argonne Dispersion Code): computer programs to calculate the distribution of trace element migration in partially equilibrating media

Description: A computer program (ARDISC, the Argonne Dispersion Code) is described which simulates the migration of nuclides in porous media and includes first order kinetic effects on the retention constants. The code allows for different absorption and desorption rates and solves the coupled migration equations by arithmetic reiterations. Input data needed are the absorption and desorption rates, equilibrium surface absorption coefficients, flow rates and volumes, and media porosities.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Strickert, R; Friedman, A M & Fried, S
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site gravity survey and interpretation

Description: A portion of the WIPP site has been extensively surveyed with high-precision gravity. The main survey (in T22S, R31E) covered a rectangular area 2 by 4-1/3 mi encompassing all of WIPP site Zone II and part of the disturbed zone to the north of the site. Stations were at 293-ft intervals along 13 north-south lines 880 ft apart. The data are considered accurate to within a few hundredths of a milligal. Long-wavelength gravity anomalies correlate well with seismic time structures on horizons below… more
Date: April 1, 1983
Creator: Barrows, L.J. & Fett, J.D.
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Region-to-area screening methodology for the Crystalline Repository Project

Description: The purpose of this document is to describe the Crystalline Repository Project's (CRP) process for region-to-area screening of exposed and near-surface crystalline rock bodies in the three regions of the conterminous United States where crystalline rock is being evaluated as a potential host for the second nuclear waste repository (i.e., in the North Central, Northeastern, and Southeastern Regions). This document indicates how the US Department of Energy's (DOE) General Guidelines for the Recom… more
Date: April 1, 1985
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WIPP conceptual design report. Addentum I. Soils and foundation investigation for proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Eddy County, New Mexico

Description: This report presents the results of a soils and foundation investigation for the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) located in Section 21, Township 22 South, Range 31 East, N.M.P.M., Eddy County, New Mexico. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the physical characteristics of the subsoils in order to provide foundation design recommendations. The investigation was performed and the report prepared in accordance with the requirements received from John West Engineering Com… more
Date: April 1, 1977
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Technical support for GEIS: radioactive waste isolation in geologic formations. Volume 22. Nuclear considerations for repository design

Description: This volume, Y/OWI/TM-36/22, ''Nuclear Considerations for Repository Design,'' is one of a 23-volume series, ''Technical Support for GEIS: Radioactive Waste Isolation in Geologic Formations,'' Y/OWI/TM-36, which supplements the ''Contribution to Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Commercial Waste Management: Radioactive Waste Isolation in Geologic Formations,'' Y/OWI/TM-44. The series provides a more complete technical basis for the preconceptual designs, resource requirements, and… more
Date: April 1, 1978
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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