Microbial characterization for the Source-Term Waste Test Program (STTP) at Los Alamos | Zendy

Patricia A. Leonard | Zendy; Betty A. Strietelmeier | Zendy; Μ. E. Pansoy-Hjelvik | Zendy; R. Villarreal | Zendy

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Microbial characterization for the Source-Term Waste Test Program (STTP) at Los Alamos

Author(s) -

Patricia A. Leonard,

Betty A. Strietelmeier,

Μ. E. Pansoy-Hjelvik,

R. Villarreal

Publication year - 1999

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/334234

Subject(s) - national laboratory , radioactive waste , environmental science , brine , actinide , waste management , nuclear engineering , engineering , nuclear physics , chemistry , physics , engineering physics , organic chemistry

The effects of microbial activity on the performance of the proposed underground nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) at Carlsbad, New Mexico are being studied at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as part of an ex situ large-scale experiment. Actual actinide-containing waste is being used to predict the effect of potential brine inundation in the repository in the distant future. The study conditions are meant to simulate what might exist should the underground repository be flooded hundreds of years after closure as a result of inadvertent drilling into brine pockets below the repository. The Department of Energy (DOE) selected LANL to conduct the Actinide Source-Term Waste Test Program (STTP) to confirm the predictive capability of computer models being developed at Sandia National Laboratory

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