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Technical program plan, Basalt Waste Isolation Project

Description: The Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) program as administered by the DOE's Richland Operations Office and Rockwell Hanford Operations is described. The objectives, scope and scientific technologies are discussed. The work breakdown structure of the project includes: project management and support, systems integration, geosciences, hydrology, engineered barriers, test facility design and construction, engineering testing, repository studies, and schedules. The budget of the program incl… more
Date: December 1, 1979
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Summary of computational support and general documentation for computer code (GENTREE) used in Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Salt Site Selection Project

Description: A Decision Tree Computer Model was adapted for the purposes of a Pilot Salt Site Selection Project conducted by the Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation (ONWI). A deterministic computer model was developed to structure the site selection problem with submodels reflecting the five major outcome categories (Cost, Safety, Delay, Environment, Community Impact) to be evaluated in the decision process. Time-saving modifications were made in the tree code as part of the effort. In addition, format change… more
Date: December 6, 1983
Creator: Beatty, J.A.; Younker, J.L.; Rousseau, W.F. & Elayat, H.A.
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Constructibility issues associated with a nuclear waste repository in basalt

Description: This report contains the text and slide reproductions of a speech on nuclear waste disposal in basalt. The presentation addresses the layout of repository access shafts and subsurface facilities resulting from the conceptual design of a nuclear repository in basalt. The constructibility issues that must be resolved prior to construction are described. (DMC)
Date: December 4, 1981
Creator: Turner, D.A.
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Regional flow and solute transport modeling for site suitability. Part I

Description: The nature of regional flow systems in large sedimentary basins will largely determine the effectiveness of regional flow as a barrier to radionuclide escape from deep geologic repositories. The purpose of the work reported herein and the proposed future work is to develop a methodology for evaluating regional flow barriers by using numerical models. The Williston Basin was chosen as an archetype case for the regional modeling study. However, due to the simplified nature of the study, the resul… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Rowe, J. & Miller, I.
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Fracture detection in crystalline rock using ultrasonic shear waves

Description: An ultrasonic shear wave reflection profiling system for use in the detection of water-filled cracks occurring within a crystalline rock mass is being tested in a laboratory environment. Experiments were performed on an irregular tensile crack induced approximately 0.5 m below one circular face of a 1.0-m-dia, 1.8-m-long granite cylinder. Good reflection data were obtained from this irregular crack with the crack either air filled or water filled. Data were collected that suggest a frequency-de… more
Date: December 1, 1978
Creator: Waters, K. H.; Palmer, S. P. & Farrell, W. E.
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Review of geotechnical measurement techniques for a nuclear waste repository in bedded salt

Description: This report presents a description of geotechnical measurement techniques that can provide the data necessary for safe development - i.e., location, design, construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment - of a radioactive waste repository in bedded salt. Geotechnical data obtained by a diversity of measurement techniques are required during all phases of respository evolution. The techniques discussed in this report are grouped in the following categories: geologic, geophysical and g… more
Date: December 1, 1979
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Seismic reflection data report: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, Southeastern New Mexico

Description: Volume II contains uninterpreted processed lines and shotpoint maps from three seismic reflection surveys conducted from 1976 through 1978 by Sandia Laboratories to support investigations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Data interpretations will be the subject of subsequent reports. (LK)
Date: December 1, 1978
Creator: Hern, J.L.; Powers, D.W. & Barrows, L.J.
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Seismic reflection data report: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, Southeastern New Mexico

Description: Three seismic reflection (Vibroseis) surveys conducted from 1976 through 1978 by Sandia Laboratories to support investigations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) are described. Volume I describes the purpose, field parameters, and data processing parameters. Volume II contains uninterpreted processed lines and shotpoint maps. Data interpretations will be the subject of the subsequent reports. The data collected during these three surveys total 77 line miles; 72 line miles of this are on… more
Date: December 1, 1978
Creator: Hern, J.L.; Powers, D.W. & Barrows, L.J.
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Comparison of the results of several heat transfer computer codes when applied to a hypothetical nuclear waste repository

Description: A direct comparison of transient thermal calculations was made with the heat transfer codes HEATING5, THAC-SIP-3D, ADINAT, SINDA, TRUMP, and TRANCO for a hypothetical nuclear waste repository. With the exception of TRUMP and SINDA (actually closer to the earlier CINDA3G version), the other codes agreed to within +-5% for the temperature rises as a function of time. The TRUMP results agreed within +-5% up to about 50 years, where the maximum temperature occurs, and then began an oscillary behavi… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Claiborne, H. C.; Wagner, R. S. & Just, R. A.
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Drilling history core hole DC-4

Description: Core hole DC-4 was completed at a depth of 3998 feet in December, 1978 by Boyles Brothers Drilling Company, Spokane, Washington, under subcontract to Fenix and Scission, Inc. The hole was cored for the US Department of Energy and the Rockwell Hanford Operations' Basalt Waste Isolation Program. Fenix and Sicsson, Inc. furnished the engineering, daily supervision of the cable tool and core drilling activities, and geological core logging for DC-4. Core hole DC-4 is located on the Hanford Site abo… more
Date: December 1, 1978
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Geophysical surveys for buried waste detection at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Description: This report describes a series of geophysical surveys performed at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). The main purpose of the surveys was to evaluate techniques, principally ground-penetrating radar, for detecting and mapping radioactive wastes buried in shallow trenches and pits. A second purpose was to determine the feasibility of using ground-penetrating radar to measure the depth of basalt bedrock. A prototype geophyscal survey system developed by the US Department of Energy'… more
Date: December 1, 1979
Creator: Sandness, G.A.; Rising, J.L. & Kimbrough, J.R.
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Quantities of uranium-235 buried in disposal boxes, 1985--1991

Description: IWT was asked by J. R. Schornhorst of NPSR to determine the distribution of the quantity of enriched uranium per disposal box (B-25) of the years 1985--1991 to provide input to an uptake of the E Area Safety Analysis. This information was considered important since the issue of criticality is an important concern in safety analyses. Information found in the COBRA data base shows no disposal containers exceeded 100 grams of U-235. The COBRA data base was queried in a two-step process. First a sh… more
Date: December 13, 1991
Creator: Cook, J. R.
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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses Applied to One-Dimensional Radionuclide Transport in a Layered Fractured Rock: Evaluation of the Limit State Approach, Iterative Performance Assessment, Phase 2

Description: The Limit State approach is based on partitioning the parameter space into two parts: one in which the performance measure is smaller than a chosen value (called the limit state), and the other in which it is larger. Through a Taylor expansion at a suitable point, the partitioning surface (called the limit state surface) is approximated as either a linear or quadratic function. The success and efficiency of the limit state method depends upon choosing an optimum point for the Taylor expansion. … more
Date: December 1, 1992
Creator: Wu, Y. T.; Gureghian, A. B.; Sagar, B. & Codell, R. B.
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Barometric pumping of burial trench soil gases into the atmosphere at the 740-G Sanitary Landfill

Description: In 1991, a soil gas survey was performed at the Savannah River Site Sanitary Landfill as part of the characterization efforts required under the integrated Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Facility Investigation and Comprehensive Environmental Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (CERCLA) Remedial Investigation (RFI/RI) program. This report details the findings of this survey, which identified several areas of the landfill that were releasing volatile organic compounds to the atm… more
Date: December 1, 1992
Creator: Wyatt, D.E.; Pirkle, R.J. & Masdea, D.J.
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Initial Waste Package Interaction Tests: Status Report

Description: This report describes the results of some initial investigations of the effects of rock media on the release of simulated fission products from a sngle waste form, PNL reference glass 76-68. All tests assemblies contained a minicanister prepared by pouring molten, U-doped 76-68 glass into a 2-cm-dia stanless steel tube closed at one end. The tubes were cut to 2.5 to 7.5 cm in length to expose a flat glass surface rimmed by the canister wall. A cylindrical, whole rock pellet, cut from one of the… more
Date: December 1980
Creator: Shade, J. W. & Bradley, D. J.
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Corrosion studies on retrievable spent fuel containers: a progress report

Description: Spent fuel canisters stored in halite (NaCl) deposits (salt beds) are subject to a severely corrosive environment when the hot brine inclusions, rich in calcium and magnesium chlorides, migrate to the canister. Since no data base exists on corrosion in halite brines, a survey was made of the corrosion resistance of potential canister materials in other concentrated brine environments. Corrosion-resistant metals include Ta, Ti Code 12, TiPd Alloy, Inconel 625, Hastelloy C-276, and Fe-base 29-4 A… more
Date: December 1, 1978
Creator: Ludemann, W.D.; Abrego, L. & McCright, R.D.
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Site selection report basalt waste isolation program near-surface test facility

Description: A site selection committee was established to review the information gathered on potential sites and to select a site for the Near-Surface Test Facility Phase I. A decision was made to use a site on the north face of Gable Mountain located on the Hanford Site. This site provided convenient access to the Pomona Basalt Flow. This flow was selected for use at this site because it exhibited the characteristics established in the primary criteria. These criteria were: the flows thickness; its drynes… more
Date: December 4, 1978
Creator: Sharpe, S.D.
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Claymax landfill cap

Description: A commercial product called Claymax'' consisting of one-quarter inch of bentonite clay between two geotextile sheets is a candidate landfill cap to replace kaolin caps. A permeability apparatus incorporating a 20 foot water head was operated for 56 days to estimate a Claymax permeability of 2 {times} 10{sup {minus}9} cm/sec compared with 10{sup {minus}8}, the EPA max for a burial site cap. 1 fig.
Date: December 15, 1989
Creator: Selby, C. L.
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Earth Sciences annual report, 1987

Description: The Earth Sciences Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory conducts work in support of the Laboratory's energy, defense, and research programs. The Department is organized into ten groups. Five of these -- Nuclear Waste Management, Fossil Energy, Containment, Verification, and Research -- represent major programmatic activities within the Department. Five others -- Experimental Geophysics, Geomechanics, Geology/Geological Engineering, Geochemistry, and Seismology/Applied Geophysics… more
Date: December 1, 1988
Creator: Younker, L. W.; Donohue, M. L. & Peterson, S. J.
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Bell Canyon Test (BCT) cement grout development report

Description: Development of the cement grout for the Bell Canyon Test was accomplished at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, Mississippi. Initial development work centered on a saltwater grout with Class H cement, fly ash, and an expansive additive. Testing of the saltwater grout showed suitable properties except for the interface between anhydrite rock and grout in small core samples. Higher than expected permeability occurred at the interface because of space between the g… more
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Gulick, C. W., Jr.; Boa, J. A., Jr. & Buck, A. D.
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