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Reference waste forms and packing material for the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations Project

Author(s) -

V.M. Oversby

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/59315

Subject(s) - radioactive waste , national laboratory , waste management , borosilicate glass , high level waste , spent nuclear fuel , savannah river site , environmental science , waste disposal , nuclear fuel , engineering , nuclear engineering , materials science , engineering physics , composite material

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, Calif., has been given the task of designing and verifying the performance of waste packages for the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI) Project. NNWSI is studying the suitability of the tuffaceous rocks at Yucca Mountain, Nevada Test Site, for the potential construction of a high-level nuclear waste repository. This report gives a summary description of the three waste forms for which LLNL is designing waste packages: spent fuel, either as intact assemblies or as consolidated fuel pins, reprocessed commercial high-level waste in the form of borosilicate glass, and reprocessed defense high-level waste from the Defense Waste Processing Facility in Aiken, S.C. Reference packing material for use with the alternative waste package design for spent fuel is also described. 14 references, 8 figures, 20 tables

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