Evaluation of regulatory guides potentially useful to geologic repository development

The US Regulatory Commission Regulatory Guide series provides a set of regulatory and technical guidelines for achieving and demonstrating regulatory compliance for various segments of the nuclear fuel cycle. Of these regulatory guides only few specifically pertain to high-level waste repository activities. The overwhelming majority pertain to other, more mature aspects of the nuclear cycle. It is believed that conscientious, reasoned application of the fundamental regulatory bases underlying the positions in these other regulatory guides could provide a solid regulatory starting point for repository development activities. This information report provides a summary screening of regulatory guides published as of September 1983 and provides an initial assessment of the potential usefulness of these regulatory guides to repository design and operation activities