Published July 12, 1984 | Version v1
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Modelling radioactive waste disposal by penetrator experiments in the abyssal Atlantic Ocean

Creators

  • 1. Building Research Establishment, Watford (UK)
  • 2. Commission of the European Communities, Ispra (Italy). Joint Research Centre
  • 3. Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Godalming (UK)

Description

The Engineering Studies Task Group of the OECS's Nuclear Energy Agency Seabed Working Group, through which research into the feasibility of high-level radioactive waste disposal in the sediments of the ocean floor is coordinated, recommended a programme of studies with instrumented model penetrators. The first tests in this programme are reported here and were carried out on RRS Discovery cruise 134 in the Great Meteor East radioactive waste disposal study area in March 1983, as a collaborative experiment between the Building Research Establishment, the Joint Research Centre and the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nature (London)
Journal Volume
310
Journal Issue
5973
Series
Nature (London).
Journal Page Range
130-133
ISSN
0028-0836

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
United Kingdom
INIS RN
15068470
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
Descriptors DEI
ACOUSTIC TESTING; ATLANTIC OCEAN; IMPACT TESTS; PENETRATION DEPTH; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SEDIMENTS; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL TESTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; SEAS; SURFACE WATERS; TESTING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT