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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant : a potential solution for the disposal of transuranic waste / Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, chartsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585027145
  • 9780585027142
  • 9786610192311
  • 6610192316
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.DDC classification:
  • 363.72/89/0978942 21
LOC classification:
  • TD812.3.N6 W37 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Regulatory compliance and repository performance -- Salado hydrogeology, gas pressure, and room closure -- Engineering to improve predicted repository performance -- Actinide source term -- Non-Salado hydrology -- Perspectives.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: This volume discusses the readiness of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, to serve as a geological repository for transuranic radioactive waste. WIPP is located in a Permian-age bedded salt deposit 658 meters below the surface. The committee has long reviewed DOE's readiness efforts, now aimed at demonstrating compliance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Site characterization studies and performance assessment modeling are among the topics considered in this volume.
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