[en] Site assessment and permanent closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Central Facilities Area (CFA) diesel underground storage tank 98CFA00260 (DEQ Facility ID# 6-120608), in accordance with the regulatory requirements established in 40 CFR 280.71, “Permanent Closure and Changes-In-Service.”

[en] This report presents an intermediate state of affairs in the execution of the first stage of the program of research concerning the geological storage of nuclear waste in the Netherlands (OPLA-program). This first stage consists of desk studies and laboratory investigations in view of the judgement of the desirability of continuation of this program in eventual next steps with field research. 19 refs.; 11 figs.; 1 table

[en] This paper presents views on the role of the licensing engineer in the design process with specific emphasis on design reviews and the automated information management tools that support design reviews. The licensing engineer is seen as an important member of a design review team. The initial focus of the licensing engineer during design reviews is shown to be on ensuring that applicable regulatory requirements are addressed by the design. The utility of an automated tool, such as a commitments management system, to support regulatory requirements identification is discussed. The next responsibility of the licensing engineer is seen as verifying that regulatory requirements are transformed into measurable performance requirements. Performance requirements are shown to provide the basis for developing detailed design review criteria. Licensing engineer input during design reviews is discussed. This input is shown to be especially critical in cases where review findings may impact application of regulatory requirements. The use of automated tools in supporting design reviews is discussed. An information structure is proposed to support design reviews in a regulated environment. This information structure is shown to be useful to activities beyond design reviews. Incorporation of the proposed information structure into the Licensing Support System is proposed

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[en] This research presents ground water system special quality of horizontally and axial by permeability thermal insulation (bamboo) because investigates tree screen zero and hydraulics special quality of wildcat, and confirmed ground water distribution special quality by special quality the repair chemistry enemy

[en] Containers for direct storage are filled with individual fuel rods or with fuel rod sections of irradiated fuel elements. In order to achieve safe, clean and dense filling of containers, the fuel rods are pushed in the horizontal plane into the front of horizontally positioned containers, as high as possible on the internal circumference. After pushing them into the container, the fuel rods fall on to the container jacket or on to the existing stack of fuel rods. The container to be filled by such a process has a filling opening for introducing the fuel rods near the internal circumference in a front wall. The plant for filling the containers has a filling trough which can be moved into a filling opening of the container, for pushing in the fuel rods. The filling trough can be rotated around its longitudinal axis. (orig./HP)

[en] The underground storage cavern prevents oil to reach the biosphere by the hydromechanical water tightness, and the hydromechanical water tightness can be achieved by making groundwater flow to the cavern continuously through a water curtain system. To design the water curtain system, it is important to characterize the groundwater flow system of a given site. In this study, we analyzed the hierarchical properties of the groundwater flow system based on analyses of the field observed data, and evaluate the hydromechanical water tightness of a designed storage cavern system

[en] Latest to hold hearings on nuclear waste disposal problems is the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. Testimonies by John M. Deutch, Rustum Roy (presenting results of National Research Council panel on waste solidification), and Darleane C. Hoffman are summarized

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[en] The annual European corrosion congress EUROCORR 2012, September 9 to 13, 2012 in Istanbul (Turkey) had organized a larger session on 'microbial corrosion', with the aim at bringing the more technical aspects and the results of the various groups in the BIOCOR network, to the attention of the larger scientific community. The three days of the session had been co-organized by Turid Liegen, head of the Working Party of the European Federation of Corrosion on microbial corrosion (EFC WP 10) and Regine Basseguy, leader of the European program BIOCOR ITN; the session included 27 oral presentations and 10 posters. The session on industrial and technical approaches of bio-corrosion phenomena demonstrated impressively the results on improved scientific analysis, more detailed mechanisms as well as future perspectives. The great resonance of the session led the organizers to the idea of gathering the main contributions in a special issue of a multidisciplinary bioelectrochemical journal. Alain Bergel, Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Bioelectrochemistry, proposed to document in this journal, the results and discussions on 'Technical Biocorrosion' thereby providing a document for strengthening the scientific basis of this economically so important field. The ambitious aim of this special issue includes drawing the attention of 'traditional biological electrochemistry' to the scientific and technical aspects of bio-corrosion in general. (authors)