Disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste in Deep Horizontal Drillholes

Evaluation of Deep Drillholes for High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal

WENG-SHENG KUO B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C (1981) M.S. Nuclear Engineering, National Tsing-Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C. (1986) SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREES OF NUCLEAR ENGINEER and MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL...

Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: engineering challenges

In recent years, geological disposal of radioactive waste has focused on placement of highand intermediate-level wastes in mined underground caverns at depths of 500–800 m. Notwithstanding the billions of dollars spent to date on this approach, the difficulty of finding suitable sites and demonstrating to the public and regulators that a robust safety case can be developed has frustrated attemp...

Nuclear waste disposal.

-Experiments are described in which dose-response data have been obtained for EMT6 mouse tumour cells growing in vivo and exposed to various cytotoxic agents. A comparison has been made of the response of solid tumours in the flank and of rapidly growing lung nodules. The results are discussed with regard to their cell kinetic implications and compared with our results for the chemosensitivity ...

Developments in Nuclear Waste Disposal

Prediction of Long-Term Corrosion Damage in High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal Systems

Assuring the public of our ability to safely isolate High Level Nuclear Waste (HLNW) from the ecosphere over the long term represents one of the greatest technical challenges ever to face humankind. The principal difficulty is that the service life horizon is twice as far into the future (10,000 years) as recorded human history is in the past, and no direct experience exists with the degradatio...