MIIT; International In-Situ Testing of Simulated HLW Forms?Preliminary Analyses of SRL 165/TDS Waste Glass and Metal Systems

Wicks, G. G.; Macedo, P. B.; Molecke, M. A.; Lodding, A. R.; Clark, D. E.; ,

MIIT; International In-Situ Testing of Simulated HLW Forms?Preliminary Analyses of SRL 165/TDS Waste Glass and Metal Systems

by G. G. Wicks, Savannah River Lab, United States,
P. B. Macedo, Savannah River Lab, United States,
M. A. Molecke, Savannah River Lab, United States,
A. R. Lodding, Savannah River Lab, United States,
D. E. Clark, Savannah River Lab, United States,

Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1990

Abstract:

The first in-situ tests involving burial of simulated high-level waste (HLW) forms conducted in the United States were started on July 22, 1986. This effort, called the Materials Interface Interactions Tests (MIIT), comprises the largest cooperative field-testing venture in the international waste management community. Included in the study are over 900 waste form samples comprising 15 different systems supplied by seven countries. Also included are almost 300 potential canister or overpack metal samples of 11 different metals along with more than 500 geologic and backfill specimens. There are a total of 1926 relevant interactions that characterize this effort which is being conducted in the bedded salt site at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The MIIT program is a joint effort managed by Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Savannah River Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina, and sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy.

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