Published 1991 | Version v1
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The Herfa-Neurode hazardous waste repository in bedded salt as an operating model for safe mixed waste disposal

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Description

For 18 years, The Herfa-Neurode underground repository has demonstrated the environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in a former potash mine. Its principal characteristics make it an excellent analogue to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The Environmental Protection Agency has ruled in its first conditional no-migration determination that is reasonably certain that no hazardous constituents of the mixed waste, destined for the WIPP during its test phase, will migrate from the site for up to ten years. Knowledge of and reference to the Herfa-Neurode operating model may substantially improve the no-migration variance petition for the WIPP's disposal phase and thereby expedite its approval. 2 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE91011451; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
6 p.
Report number
DOE/WIPP--90-035C

Conference

Title
Waste management '91 and International symposium on lysimetry.
Dates
24-28 Feb 1991.
Place
Tucson, AZ (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22086160
Subject category
S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALT DEPOSITS; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; USA; WIPP
Descriptors DEC
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EUROPE; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; MANAGEMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PILOT PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC04-86AL31950
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (USA).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-910270--51.