Published 1996
| Version v1
Report
Depleted-uranium-silicate backfill of spent-fuel waste packages for repository containment and criticality control
- 1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
Description
A new technology, the Depleted Uranium Silicate Container Backfill System (DUSCOBS), is proposed to improve the performance and reduce the uncertainties of geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF). DUSCOBS is designed to: (1) reduce radionuclide release rates from the waste package and (2) reduce the potential for repository nuclear criticality events. As a secondary benefit, it disposes of excess depleted uranium (DU). DUSCOBS also provides benefits for SNF storage and transport. These are discussed in a companion paper
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- High level radioactive waste management: Proceedings of the seventh annual international conference
- Imprint Pagination
- 519 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 366-368.
- Report number
- CONF-960421--
Conference
- Title
- 7. annual international high-level radioactive waste management conference.
- Dates
- 29 Apr - 3 May 1996.
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 28019594
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINMENT; CRITICALITY; DEPLETED URANIUM; GROUND WATER; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PACKAGING; SOLUBILITY; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; URANIUM DIOXIDE; URANIUM SILICATES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SILICATES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM OXIDES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WATER