scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF WASTE PACKAGE DESIGN CONFIGURATIONS

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOE
Keyword(s):  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package

A Modest Proposal: A Robust, Cost-Effective Design for High-Level Waste Packages

1997 ◽  
Vol 506 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Apted
Keyword(s):  
Mild Steel ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
High Level Waste ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
High Level ◽  
Effective Design

ABSTRACTAn alternative waste-package design for the geological disposal of high-level waste (HLW) glass is presented. In conventional designs, a massive buffer of compacted bentonite is placed around a thick-walled, mild-steel overpack; in the revised design, a much thinner buffer is placed within a thin-walled, mild-steel overpack. This simple expedient eliminates certain performance concerns in existing waste-package designs, while not necessitating the study of any new materials. This integrated waste package (IWP) design has comparable release-rate performance as current package designs for HLW. In addition, the 1WP design requires far-less rock excavation, permits significantly higher temperatures for longer periods, leads to a 20-50% reduction in repository area, and is more cost efficient than previous designs.

Waste Package Reliability / Nalysis

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Pescatore ◽  
C. Sastre
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Sense ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level ◽  
Package Reliability ◽  
General Method

ABSTRACTProof of future performance of a complex system such as a high-level nuclear waste package over a period of hundreds to thousands of years cannot be had in the ordinary sense of the word. The general method of probabilistic reliability analysis could provide an acceptable framework to identify, organize, and convey the information necessary to satisfy the criterion of reasonable assurance of waste package performance according to the regulatory requirements set forth in 10 CFR 60. General principles which may be used to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative reliability of a waste package design are indicated and illustrated with a sample calculation of a repository concept in basalt.

scholarly journals Total-System Performance Assessment for the Yucca Mountain Site

2002 ◽  
Vol 713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Wilson ◽  
Peter N. Swift ◽  
Jerry A. McNeish ◽  
S. David Sevougian
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Total System ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
Igneous Activity ◽  
Nominal Performance ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTYucca Mountain, Nevada, is under consideration as a potential site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste. Total-system performance-assessment simulations are performed to evaluate the safety of the site. Features, events, and processes have been systematically evaluated to determine which ones are significant to the safety assessment. Computer models of the disposal system have been developed within a probabilistic framework, including both engineered and natural components. Selected results are presented for three different total-system simulations, and the behavior of the disposal system is discussed. The results show that risk is dominated by igneous activity at early times, because the robust waste-package design prevents significant nominal (non-disruptive) releases for tens of thousands of years or longer. The uncertainty in the nominal performance is dominated by uncertainties related to waste-package corrosion at early times and by uncertainties in the natural system, most significantly infiltration, at late times.

Second generation waste package design and storage concept for the Yucca Mountain Repository

2006 ◽  
Vol 236 (24) ◽  
pp. 2589-2598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Sam Armijo ◽  
Piyush Kar ◽  
Manoranjan Misra
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
And Storage

scholarly journals Yucca Mountain Project waste package design for MRS [Monitored Retrievable Storage] system studies

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Nelson ◽  
E. Russell ◽  
G. L. Johnson ◽  
R. Morissette ◽  
D. Stahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Storage System ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Waste Package ◽  
Monitored Retrievable Storage
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