Clay and granitic geologic rock units are potential host media for future repositories for used nuclear fuel and high level waste. This report addresses the representation of flow in these two media within numerical process (discrete fracture network) ...
The Office of Nuclear Energy has conducted a technical review and assessment of the total current inventory [~70,150 MTHM as of 2011] of domestic discharged used nuclear fuel (UNF) and estimated an amount to be considered for retention in support of re...
This purpose of the QAPD is to define quality assurance requirements for the Fuel Cell Technologies Program.
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A disposal concept consists of three parts: waste inventory (7 waste types examined), geologic setting (e.g., clay/shale, salt, crystalline, other sedimentary), and the engineering concept of operations (range of generic operational concepts examined; ...
The report addresses granular salt reconsolidation from three vantage points: laboratory testing, modeling, and petrofabrics.
The scorecard includes news updates, regulatory status, reactor design certification, and early site permits.