Disposal of radioactive waste
Creators
Description
The conclusions reached by the ERDA Seabed Emplacement Program. as a result of a three-year study of the disposal of radioactive waste in the seabed are presented. After vitrification the radioactive waste is placed in titanium-zirconium containers and buried in sedimentary layers in the deep ocean bed at the centre of circulating ocean currents. The glassified structure is expected to be thermally decomposed by decay heat in about 1000 years, while the container is expected to be resistant for some thousands of years. Tests have shown that diffusion through sedimentary clays by fission products is restricted to a zone of 100m diameter for chlorine and 30m diameter for strontium and cesium, per million years. It is also feasible to deposit the waste containers in holes drilled in lithified sediments or crustal rock (basalt) (JIW)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Promising project identifies prospective sea zones
- Original title (Norwegian)
- Lagring av radioaktivt avfall
- Original subtitle (Norwegian)
- Loefterikt prosjekt sirkler inn aktuelle havomraader.
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Tek. Ukebl.
- Journal Volume
- 124
- Journal Issue
- 38
- Series
- Tek. Ukebl.
- Journal Page Range
- 4-5
- ISSN
- 0040-2354
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Norway
- Country of Input or Organization
- Norway
- INIS RN
- 11500452
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- BASALT; BOREHOLES; CLAYS; CONTAINMENT; DECOMPOSITION; GEOLOGIC STRATA; GLASS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SEA BED; SEDIMENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- CAVITIES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MANAGEMENT; MINERALS; ROCKS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT