Criteria for greater confinement of radioactive wastes at arid western sites

Abstract

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Alternative methods for dispoal of low-level radioactive wastes. Task 1. Description of methods and assessment of criteria. [Alternative methods are belowground vaults, aboveground vaults; earth mounded concrete bunkers, mined cavities, augered holes]

“…The use of augered holes for storage or disposal of low-or intermediate-level radioactive waste has been studied by the US Department of Energy (Dickman and Boland, 1982;Hooker, 1983;Card andothers, 1981| Cohen and, the Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd (AECL) (Morrison, 1974;Beamer and others, 1982;Harmon and others, 1983) and by the NRC and other agencies others, 1978 and1979) as an alternative to shallow land burial of these wastes.…”