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Engineered Components for Spent Fuel Radioactive Waste Isolation Systems—are They Technically Justified?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

H. C. Burkholder
H. C. Burkholder*
Affiliation:
Battelle Memorial InstituteOffice of Nuclear Waste Isolation Columbus, Ohio
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In response to draft radioactive waste disposal standards, R&D programs have been initiated in the United States which are aimed at developing and ultimately using radionuclide transport-delaying (e.g., long-lived waste containers) and radionuclide transport-controlling (e.g., very low release rate waste forms) engineered components as part of the isolation system. Before these programs proceed significantly, it seems prudent to evaluate the technical justification for development and use of sophisticated engineered components in radioactive waste isolation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 11: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V , 1981 , 619
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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