Waste form performance allocation, functional requirements, and testing programs of the salt repository project relative to waste acceptance specifications for glass high-level waste forms

The Salt Repository Project is one of the four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects associated with the deep geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste. Concurrent with these project activities directed toward the final selection and licensing of a geologic repository, other nonrepository DOE projects are proceeding with activities directed toward vitrification of liquid wastes, particularly those stored at the West Valley and Savannah River Laboratory facilities. Waste acceptance specifications have been jointly developed by both the repository projects and the waste form producers to allow both groups to proceed with their respective activities with a high degree of assurance that the waste forms thus produced can be received, packaged, and disposed of by the repositories in a manner that will meet applicable regulations. The bases for these acceptance specifications are the performance allocations and the functional requirements assigned to the waste form by the repository projects as well as recognition of the additional attendant testing to be performed by the repository projects in developing a testing data base to support licensing of the repository