DOE-EM/Producers Strategy for Wasteform and Process Startup Acceptance
The high-level waste (HLW) sites are working closely with the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (DOE-EM) to ensure that the activities...
Vitrification of Defense High Level Radioactive Waste at Savannah River and Hanford
The Department of Energy (DOE) is in the process of implementing two major elements of the Defense High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Program at two of the DOE production sites, namely...
High Level Radioactive Waste Management at the Savannah River Site
This paper describes the High Level Radioactive Waste (HLW) generated at the Savannah River Site (SRS), outlines how it has been managed over the 35 years since site operations began,...
Building of a Conceptual Model at the UE25-C Hole Complex
U.S. Geological Survey and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are attempting to construct a conceptual model of the UE25-c hole complex. An interdisciplinary approach is discussed where all...
Prototype Testing for the Yucca Mountain Project
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Yucca Mountain Project Office (YMPO), has been conducting prototype activities in welded and non-welded tuff. These activities are in preparation...
The International Stripa Project: Technology Transfer From Cooperation in Scientific and Technological Research on Nuclear Waste Disposal
The Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD/NEA) sponsors the International Stripa Project. The Stripa Project is open to participation...
The Status of the Site Characterization and Validation Program in Phase III of the OECD/NEA Stripa Project
In 1980, the International Stripa Project was organized under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency for the purpose of conducting research, at the Stripa mine in Sweden, related...
Origin of Carbonate Deposits in the Vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Preliminary Results of Strontium-Isotope Analyses
As part of the paleohydrology study of the Yucca Mountain Project, strontium-isotope analyses of carbonate deposits, ground water, and major rock reservoirs of strontium are in progress....
Reconnaissance ? ??C and ??8O Data from Trench 14, Busted Butte, and Drill Hole G-4, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Test Site
Trench 14 was excavated to investigate the extent of Quaternary movement on the Bow Ridge fault, a north-south structure on the east side of Yucca Mountain. The trench exposes calcite...
Dispute Resolution ? A New Approach for Public Acceptance of the High-Level Radioactive Waste Mamagement Regulatory System
This paper examines the feasibility of utilizing Dispute Resolution to significantly reduce the numbers of technical disputes subject to litigation in civil courts or before the NRC to...
The Public Consultation Program on Nuclear Fuel Waste Management in Canada
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited has conducted a public consultation program (PCP) with public interest groups broadly representative of Canadian society to identify the issues of public...
Social Impact Assessment of Siting the High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada: The Use of Risk Future Scenarios in Survey Research
The proposed siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository in the State of Nevada has raised difficult problems with respect to assessing future social impacts. The projection of impacts...
The Development of Small Area Socioeconomic Data to be Utilized for Impact Analysis: Rural Southern Nevada
This paper describes the process by which economic and demographic estimates and projections will be prepared to determine the potential economic and demographic impacts that may result...
Beyond NEPA: A Look at Socioeconomic Impact Assessments Required Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as Amended
The Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) has been charged by Congress, through the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as amended (the Act),...
Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Management in Selected Countries: Trends and Issues
This paper contains descriptions of the major parameters and plans for management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes in Belgium, Canada, France, the Federal Republic...
Spent Fuel Storage Requirements for Nuclear Utilities and OCRWM
Projected spent fuel generation at U.S. power reactors exceeds estimated aggregate pool storage capacity by approximately 30,000 metric tons of uranium (MTU). Based on the current repository...
Optimizing the Spent Fuel Transportation Cask for Spent Fuel Age and Burnup: A Preliminary Analysis
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been assigned responsibility for managing the nation's spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Because of the large quantity of SNF to be moved,...
Size and Transportation Capabilities of the Existing U.S. Cask Fleet
This study investigates the current spent nuclear fuel cask fleet capability in the United States. In addition, it assesses the degree to which the current fleet would be available, as...
Analysis of RADTRAN Transportation Model
The RADTRAN computer model, used to estimate the risks of transporting waste to a high-level repository, is critically reviewed. Ignoring high consequence accidents, human error, sabotage,...
Accident Analyses in Fulfillment of the Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and Their Relationship to the Packaging and Testing Requirements of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In planning its Transportation Program, the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management must address two fundamental questions: (1) To what extent are the reasonably foreseeable significant...
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