Feasibility of Very Deep Borehole Disposal of US Nuclear Defense Wastes
This report analyzes the feasibility of emplacing DOE-owned defense nuclear waste from weapons production into a permanent borehole repository drilled ~4 km into granite basement rock. Two canister options were analyzed throughout the report: the canister currently used by the DOE for vitrified d...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75274 |